If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

The syntactic behaviour of English minimizers such as (not) alone word, (not) alone bit and (not) sleep alone wink is puzzling: while they can behave as polarity items (PIs) in non-negative and ...

Questions are marked in English syntax by moving the first auxiliary verb in the clause to the beginning of the clause, or, more specifically, the features of the auxiliary verb are copied upwards.

Jason B. Jones points to a web app that offers syntax highlighting for English prose.

But none of these works well when new English learners have not received explicit instruction in the largely missing ingredient: Syntax. Patrick Herrera ([email protected])is an adjunct faculty member ...

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 ...