Functional Syntax and Construction Grammar Functional Syntax and Construction Grammar Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, ...

What is the difference between grammar and syntax, and why is it important to get it right in the English language? Professor Roly Sussex explains.

By Calley Pierce Course: Morphology and Syntax (Ling 4420) Advisor: Jared Desjardins LURA 2019 The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all ...

When he completed his monumental Old English Syntax in 1982, towards the end of his long career as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon, he introduced it with the words, "I have to state categorically my ...