Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

People whinge about “the decline of grammar” when they are merely talking about minor solecisms of spelling and punctuation, or a change in some convention they learned in childhood. They could adopt ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Modern Philology sets the standard for literary ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents the first grammar of Emigranto, the German/English mixed code spoken by Jewish refugees residing in London, UK. It goes ...

"Understanding English Grammar" presents a linguistic introduction to the structure of English that is accessible to students who have had little or no opportunity to study the language. The book ...