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 ...

An international team has created a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world's languages Date: April 20, 2023 Source: ...

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.

Grammatical structures as a window into the past A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published ...

This pattern occurs widely in West African languages. A number of such African patterns can even be found in the vernacular English variety of African-Americans in the United States.

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 ...

Understanding these categories transforms grammar from abstract rules into logical patterns. Practice identifying these parts in simple sentences before tackling complex structures.

In arranging the elements of a sentence, lawyers sometimes forget to account for the reader's likely reaction to common grammatical patterns. Because the reaction to grammatical structures is ...

Susan Garzon, Social Variation and Grammatical Patterns in 1770s Virginia: Evidence from Robert Munford's "The Candidates", The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall ...

Grammar can influence the perception of motion events Different languages can have subtly different effects on the way we think and perceive, a phenomenon known as linguistic relativity. In a new ...