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 ...

It's clear that the message comes from an intelligent being, but everything about it — the syntax, the grammar, the context — is unintelligible to us Earthlings.

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

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 ...

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 empirical basis consists of longitudinal case-studies of the acquisition of French and German as first and second languages. The L2 learners' first language is Spanish. In L1 data one finds a ...

The rules of crosswords are part of a rich set of conventions shared by those who solve them—and they are intimately related to the grammar of language in general.

The grammar of bird calls One key element of human language is semantics, the connection of words with meanings.