Prof. Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, discussed how St. Jerome — a scholar who came from Dalmatia and lived from the mid 300s to the early 400s — ...

In 1940, Vladimir Nabokov moved to New York City from Paris and needed a job. He submitted his curriculum vitae to Yale along with three letters of reference, including one penned by Nobel ...

About 46 million people in the European Union speak languages that are not majority tongues in their countries, ranging from Swedish speakers in Finland to users of Sorbic, a Slavonic language spoken ...

When William Morfill died at what is now 42 Park Town, Oxford, on November 9, 1909, he left a remarkable legacy that is probably not fully appreciated. A keen linguist from his schooldays, his ...

Poetry in an ancient language. It feels and speaks Kashubian and about Kashubia. It is almost a century and a half old and is published several times a year under different names. Learn Polish with ...

The expression of grammatical number varies from relative simplicity in some languages to great complexity in others. Even in languages where the main patterns are straightforward, we often find ...