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 ...

The study of language change, when viewed through the lens of construction grammar, provides a dynamic framework for understanding how individual linguistic constructions evolve and spread within ...

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Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good grammar into you—and was that teacher on the stern and grumpy side of the instructional ...