A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

A new world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages. A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from ...

Languages differ in how they describe motion events. For example, given a motion event, the grammar of English draws attention to the trajectory and endpoint of the motion event equally (for example, ...

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 ...

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Vol. 20, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Language Acquisition in Bilingual and Atypical Populations: Focus on Developmental Comparisons (April–June 2013), pp. 133-154 (22 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, ...

The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...

A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...