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English verb constructions: accusative or more?

Sometimes someone comes along and pulls the rug from under your most deeply-held ideas. This time it is […]

March 19, 2015 Language

Modern English Grammars – 2 Reference grammars

A survey of the major reference grammars of English available in print or to download.

March 15, 2015 Language

Modern English Grammars – 1 Student grammars and manuals of style

The first of two articles, this covers student grammars, style guides, and the like, which are useful to those already fluent in English who wish to take that further. All avoid being prescriptive.

March 14, 2015 Language

What does they mean?

An illustration of how we sometimes need more than just syntax and semantics to parse a simple sentence.

March 3, 2015 General, Language

So how do we learn that?

Being a linguist must be very frustrating. When others think of the most intellectually-demanding subjects which have been […]

February 1, 2015 Language
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