This course introduces students to a variety of approaches to the contemporary English language, with a focus on both structure and variation. Students will explore how English works in terms of its ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE English Literature students studying the form, structure and language of Great Expectations. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got ...

Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE English Literature students studying the form, structure and language of Jane Eyre. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you! You ...

Psychologists argue that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate ...

German pupils (age 12-13 years) studying English as a foreign language were taught three grammatical structures (passive, gerund, and future tense). Following Wickelgren's concept of memory trace ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...