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 ...

If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

We start our discussion of syntax and how we morph words into questions and stories. Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it ...

Several models have been proposed to account for the neurocognitive basis of the mental lexicon (a repository of stored words) and the mental grammar (which captures ...

In April, Grammar Dog and I introduced the “MUST” words beginning with [Magn-] and [Mal-]. In this column we put on display ...