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 ...

The English language is no exception. With roots in many other world languages, English includes a number of spelling, ...

It's been a while since I started teaching English part time as a pastime. Before landing this job, I had a lot of different jobs, such as merchandiser, a paralegal, a translator, a claim adjustor, an ...

The syntactic behaviour of English minimizers such as (not) alone word, (not) alone bit and (not) sleep alone wink is puzzling: while they can behave as polarity items (PIs) in non-negative and ...

Programmers have long been used to text editors that offer syntax highlighting, a feature that does exactly what it says on the tin: it renders specific aspects of code in different colors, so that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, ...

A man tried speaking in English when asked about the Punjab floods. However, his incoherent answer created a moment of unintentional humour.