Research into grammar suggests that a significant proportion of native English speakers are unable to understand some basic sentences. The findings - which undermine the assumption that all speakers ...

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Nouns are a class of words that include people, places, things, or ideas. Common nouns refer to ordinary things, like “car” or “school.” Proper nouns are names of particular people, places, or things, ...

These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a ...

Linguistics is a fascinating tool that addresses issues we all care about and has an exciting impact that goes far beyond the study of language. I discovered this after I finished a bachelor’s in ...