Very recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that “money doesn’t grow on trees” during his speech to the nation where he defended his economic reforms. If the popular saying is changed to “Monies ...

You might think nouns are the most straightforward part of language. After all, they’re just words for people, places, and things, right? Think again. Across the world’s languages, nouns are ...

In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

The question above emanated from some comments that greeted a recent observation by Lagos-based media executive, Bamidele Johnson. In a Facebook post, he had reminded his friends – and foes – that ...