The word “circumambulate” is a verb that means to walk all the way around something. This term is often used in a ritualistic ...

Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...