All language teachers benefit from understanding of how language in general works. This course is designed to help students to understand and use in their language teaching the basic concepts, methods ...

Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to ...

Some syntactic approaches to argument structure posit small clause constituents to represent what they take to be the semantics of the constructions being analyzed. For example, this approach would ...

Standard approaches to possible-world semantics allow us to define necessity and logical truth, but analyticity is considerably more difficult to account for. The source of this difficulty lies in the ...

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, ...

Introduction -- 1. Lexicons and meaning -- 2. Syntax Part 1. Verbal markers in AAE -- 3. Syntax Part 2. Syntactic and morphosyntactic properties in AAE -- 4. Phonology of AAE -- 5. Speech events and ...