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 ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

I hope that everyone had a safe and very enjoyable long holiday weekend. As is the custom, my brother hosted the annual get-together, and this year we had an additional reason to celebrate as my ...