Linguistics
Linguistics Girl: The Linguistic Librarian is all about language. Learn about the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the English language as well as linguistic theories and more about language in general. The mission of Linguistics Girl is to provide information about all things linguistic to all readers interested in language. Linguistics Girl is written by Heather Johnson.
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Greek Loanwords in EnglishThe English language has borrowed extensively from the Greek language beginning during the Germanic period when many words borrowed from Latin...
November 9, 2011 -
Latin Loanwords in EnglishThe English language has borrowed extensively from the Latin language beginning during the Germanic period before English was English through the...
November 8, 2011 -
Borrow or Develop?: Enriching the English VocabularyWhen William Caxton introduced the printing press to England in 1476, English developed into a physical entity (Smith “Early”). Language no...
November 7, 2011 -
The Subordinator in English GrammarSubordinators in English grammar are words that introduce subordinate or dependent clauses. The three dependent clauses in English are noun clauses,...
October 17, 2011 -
The Correlator in English GrammarCorrelators in English grammar are function words that are the first word or words in pairs of conjunctions that also join...
October 16, 2011 -
The Coordinator in English GrammarCoordinators in English grammar are function words that join or link two or more words, phrases, and clauses. Function words perform...
October 15, 2011 -
English Vowels: Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds in American EnglishAmerican English has sixteen vowel sounds—ten monophthongs and six diphthongs—but only six vowel letters. A monophthong is a single vowel sound....
October 10, 2011 -
Types of English Affixes: Derivational and Inflectional Prefixes and SuffixesAn affix is a bound morpheme that attaches to the stem of a word to form either a new word or...
October 9, 2011 -
Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as DeterminativesIn traditional treatments of grammar, nouns are defined as words that denote a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase...
September 30, 2011 -
One Must Wash Their Hands: Using “They” in the Singular and ImpersonalMost native English speakers can recall (with some trepidation) the days of fill-in-the-blank grammar exercises. Consider with me the following sentences:...
September 29, 2011 -
To Boldly Go Where Most English Speakers Have Gone Before: The Split InfinitiveTo split the infinitive or to not split the infinitive, that is the question. Prescriptive grammars forbid the splitting of infinitives....
September 28, 2011 -
With or Without a Complement: Ending Sentences with PrepositionsWhat is up with the English grammar rule “do not end sentences with prepositions”? I clearly remember my grade school grammar...
September 27, 2011 -
Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect ObjectsNouns are traditionally defined as words that refer to a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a phrase...
September 26, 2011 -
Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Direct ObjectsNouns have traditionally been defined as words for people, places, things, and ideas. A noun phrase consists of a noun plus...
September 25, 2011 -
English PunctuationDiscover the rules for using apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs,...
September 24, 2011
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