Linguistic structures and syntax form the cornerstone of our understanding of human language, delineating the formal rules that govern sentence formation and meaning. This area of research ...

We break down what roles different types of words and phrases play within a sentence. There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest ...

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 ...

Rebecca Tollan, Ph.D., is an associate professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in linguistics from the ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Title: "Word Order and Object Marking in Copala Triqui: Lessons from Experimental Fieldwork" Abstract: Differential Object Marking is a cross-linguistic phenomenon in which certain kinds of objects (e ...

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