We know what Dothraki sounds like, but what does it look like? Here’s the syntax of some of your favorite Dothraki sentences — including “I will not honor you thus” and the slightly alarming “I saw ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

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

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...