The world uses English as a lingua franca because it makes sense for millions of people (“The Downside of English’s Dominance,” Review, Nov. 27). My grandfather in India mandated the use of English in ...

Carey, Ray (2014) Toward a methodology of chunking: applications and extensions of Linear Unit Grammar. Paper presented at ICAME 35 (Intl. Computer Archive of Modern & Medieval English), University of ...

SIR: It is inarguably a fact that whatever a vast majority of Africans and nations have now become is a result of their earlier encounter, and continuous interface with the people and nations of the ...

English is spoken as lingua franca among the people of many countries across the world. It has proved its credential as the ...

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. By Nicholas Ostler. Walker & Company; 368 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ENGLISH is the most successful ...

To capture the changes in English as they are taking place and to understand the processes involved, we need to document uses of English as it undergoes these transformations. Project SELF sets out to ...

Is there a certain triumphalism about English these days? The language is viewed as so pervasive, so essential, in our ever-more-connected world, that it can only continue to dominate. Not so fast, ...

Seven hundred and seventeen comments in four days. The readers of The Wall Street Journal have many feelings about grammar. On March 13, the Wall Street Journal published an essay by Oliver Kamm ...