I have a distinguished colleague who unceasingly tries to persuade me to see that my attempts at descriptive grammar really have a prescriptive subtext. We were both participants in a workshop on the ...

Professor Stefan Collini of the University of Cambridge says in a recent review article in Prospect Magazine: For some time now, it has been customary to label those who write about grammar and usage ...

Researchers have developed an intelligent computational model of the descriptive grammar of the Spanish language. This opens up new possibilities for the computational representation of languages and ...

Learn the difference between hyphen, en dash, and em dash with simple rules and examples. It improves clarity, accuracy, and ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central ...

Estonian linguists have compiled the third compendium of descriptive grammar of the Estonian language. More than a thousand pages cover topics from pronunciation to word formation. The plan to publish ...

“They leave grammar out because they think it is difficult, and when you don’t know the grammar of a language, you don’t know that grammar in that language.” She called for a review of English ...