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 ...

Baffling grammar Another reason is that English has a peculiarity: the phenomenon of phrasal verbs—a verb whose meaning is changed by a small word added to it. Take ‘run’ for example.

To better understand how grammatical structures emerge in hybridized languages, researchers analyzed the patterns of creole and non-creole languages from all over the globe. Photo by Russell Gray/MPG ...

Humans learn complex grammatical patterns even in extremely challenging circumstances Creole languages shed light on the robustness of language transmission Peer-Reviewed Publication Max Planck ...

Grammatical structures as a window into the past Date: November 4, 2013 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: A new world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and ...

It requires practice; you don't automatically get it by virtue of being a native speaker. You have to learn how to hear around accents, word choices and grammatical patterns.