Functional Syntax and Construction Grammar Functional Syntax and Construction Grammar Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, ...

Language AI Don’t Know No Grammar I thought the ultrasophisticated language algorithm would understand the rules of grammar. I was wrong.

Camilla Bardel, Ylva Falk, The role of the second language in third language acquisition: the case of Germanic syntax, Second Language Research, Vol. 23, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 459-484 ...

In contrastive syntax, the main interests have been different clause and complex sentence structures and syntactic questions within the clauses, such as verbal and adjectival constructions and ...

Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure.

Universal development Ultimately, the sheer variety across 7000+ languages made it very difficult for proponents of universal grammar to define its content.

This essay analyzes what Alexis de Tocqueville calls an "application of linguistics to history." Beginning with Tocqueville's position that language is the ground of meaningful bonds between people, I ...

The rules of crosswords are part of a rich set of conventions shared by those who solve them—and they are intimately related to the grammar of language in general.

Unlike in spoken languages, in which grammar is expressed through sound-based signifiers for tense, aspect, mood and syntax (the way we organise individual words), sign languages use hand ...