Go Buy Bring Come: The Logic of Serial Verbs
In languages from Thailand to Ghana, you can say "go buy bring the book" and be perfectly grammatical. This fascinating feature, known as a serial verb construction, strings verbs together…
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The Alphabet That Isn’t: Unpacking the Logic of Abugidas and Abjads
Most of us learn the ABCs and assume all writing works this way, but that's just one piece of the linguistic puzzle. From Arabic's consonant-only script to Hindi's consonant-vowel units,…