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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To provide some perspective on current issues and challenges concerning the role of grammar in language teaching, the article reviews some methodological trends of the past 25 years. When, and to what ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Despite the conventional wisdom, a new study shows picking up the subtleties of grammar in a second language does not fade until well into the teens ...