Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

Adjectives are agents of beauty and clarity in speaking and writing. When used properly, they explain and embellish constructions. However, positioning of adjectives in relation to the words they ...