The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 429-451 (23 pages) Recently several philosophers of science have proposed what has come to be known as the semantic account of ...

Dissecting a sentence's grammar is a hobby typically reserved for elementary school teachers or that pedantic English major you met in college, but a team of scientists from MIT is interested in ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...