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 ...

In contrastive syntax, the main interests have been different clause and complex sentence structures and syntactic questions within the clauses, such as verbal and adjectival constructions and ...

The study of language change, when viewed through the lens of construction grammar, provides a dynamic framework for understanding how individual linguistic constructions evolve and spread within ...

Andrea Lackner's research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and affiliated with the Centre of Sign Language and Deaf Communication at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria. Most people ...

Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure. Grammar allows us to structure our sentences and even our thoughts and ideas. Some experts think that ...

Nearly 7,000 different languages are spoken across the world. But how these languages evolved has long been a source of debate. Now, a group of German researchers has uncovered exactly how language ...