The worst partners rarely announce their toxicity with a loud warning. Instead, they embed their dysfunctional patterns into everyday language. These subtle, emotionally manipulative phrases are often ...

This paper investigates novel evidence from Russian Verb-Stranding Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VVPE), and argues for its use as a probe into the syntactic structure of morphophonologically inseparable but ...

We all do it sometimes. We undermine ourselves by using less-effective language, verbal tics, and other oral miscues. That means there’s always room for improvement to help your messages get through ...

Ever been in a conversation where someone seems to be trying a little too hard to convince you of their good character? In a world where authenticity is a prized quality, psychology suggests that the ...

Tense and aspect markers in Japanese relative clauses contrast with each other in unique ways not observed in matrix sentences. Different kinds of semantic contrasts appear under particular conditions ...