Was it in "Mary Poppins" or "The Sound of Music" that Julie Andrews told us that a spoonful of honey helps the medicine go down? In the case of Bastard Tongues -- an often highly technical account of ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

When groups of people who speak different languages come together, they sometimes inadvertently create a new one, combining bits of each into something everyone can use to communicate easily.