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, ...

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 ...

From reviving endangered tongues to decoding daily conversations, linguistics transforms how we learn, connect, and preserve ...

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 ...

The study of language change, when viewed through the lens of construction grammar, provides a dynamic framework for understanding how individual linguistic constructions evolve and spread within ...

Appreciating the fear that languages and traditions of some tribal people will become extinct, the Department has been working to document the descriptive grammar, and digitise the rituals and ...

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 ...

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

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