Nerd has been part of our lexicon for three-quarters of a century, its geeky meaning embodied by some of the most ...

A search for the word "Jew" on Google Tuesday temporarily had the engine telling users that the word is an offensive verb. The top definition that appeared in search results — up until around 1 p.m.

A new type of noun + verb compound formation is attested in Japanese which involves a sentential structure as its input and presumably takes place in the phonological component. This 'postsyntactic' ...

One of the central issues in morphology/morphosyntax has been the locus of the mechanisms responsible for word formation. LEXICALISM claims that the mechanisms employed for word formation are distinct ...

The Collins English Dictionary defines the word “woman” as “an adult female human being.” But this past August, a tempest began on Twitter when a user posted two responses written to people who had ...

You better believe it — “gaslighting” is the word of the year. The newly common term for lying to someone in order to mentally manipulate them topped Merriam-Webster’s list of 2022’s hottest words and ...