A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student at Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by 鈥渢he father of linguistics鈥 P膩峁噄ni.
A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people acquire language.
We avoid them in formal writing but they pepper our emails 鈥β營n 'Ellipsis in English Literature', Dr Anne Toner explores the history of dots, dashes and asterisks used to mark silence of some kind. 探花直播focus of the book 鈥撀爐he first to look exclusively at the backstory of these marks 鈥撀爄s communication.
Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zagwa elaya. A Cambridge academic thinks that the zagwa elaya is the world鈥檚 earliest question mark.
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