After applying advanced evolutionary modeling techniques, the researchers report that about one-third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns believed to exist across all languages—show ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...

The grammar check feature appears to have been available since at least last month, although Google warns its suggestions might not be 100 percent accurate. The grammar check feature appears to have ...

Psycholinguists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain found that when reading, people are not only able to predict specific words, but also words' grammatical properties, which helps them to read ...

If you're unsure if a sentence you wrote is grammatically correct, you can now ask Google to check it for you. According to 9to5Google, a new grammar feature in Google Search can offer corrections and ...

Many linguists have proposed that languages spoken by numerous non-native speakers tend to have simpler grammars. A new study challenges this claim. By analyzing a global sample of 1,314 languages, ...

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

Soon there will be no excuse for bad grammar. Google is adding a grammar check feature to Google Docs to correct even the most complicated errors, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, ...