It is a widely held perception that the basic element of sentence construction in English is WORD. This is a faulty perception. Contrarily, the basic element of communication – phrases, clauses, and ...

Traditionally, morphology dealt with the segmentalization of words into morphemes, and distribution of the allomorphs of a given morpheme. More recently it has come to be included in writing the ...

Today’s column is about linguistics and language, both words with different vowel letters but the same root meaning. Both [ling] and [lang] come from Latin “lingua,” which means “tongue.” I hope you ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is based on a logical form based on proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal modifiers--roughly, the node S. A ...