The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

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 ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use.

The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

The traditional rendering “grace” for חֵן is controversial. Frame semantics, a theory originating in cognitive linguistics, anticipates that prototypical situations are evoked in language users’ minds ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.