Linguistics
Complex Sentences: Subordinate Clauses as Adverb ClausesSimple sentences such as The fire glowed and Extremely frigid fall winds chilled my sweater-loving puppy of small stature to his...
December 11, 2011- I’m Right About Ain’t Ain’t a Word, Aren’t I?: Prescriptive Grammar Rules and English Contractions
The question of “what is a word” is not a matter of making appearances in prestigious dictionaries (which, by the way,...
December 3, 2011 - You Left Your Rs in the 1700s: Received Pronunciation Versus Extra-Insular Englishes
When the Royal Society unsuccessfully attempted to establish a formal language academy in England in 1664, lexicographers and grammarians from the...
November 29, 2011 - With or Without a Complement: The Form and Function of Prepositions
“Prepositions are not words to end sentences with” reads the joke commenting on a prescriptive grammar rule for prepositions. According to...
November 27, 2011 - Witchy Speech
Witches and wizards found in fantasy literature reveal themselves as magical not only through their actions and outward appearances but also...
November 16, 2011 - I Type How I Sound: E-Language and Phonetic Spelling
The English language changed dramatically with the introduction of the printing press into England in 1476 because of the development of...
November 14, 2011 - Viking and Norman Influences on the English Language
During the eighth and ninth centuries, Vikings from Scandinavia from the North attacked the Germanic tribes living in England (Smith “External”)....
November 10, 2011 - Greek Loanwords in English
The 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 English
The 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 Vocabulary
When 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 Grammar
Subordinators 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 Grammar
Correlators 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 Grammar
Coordinators 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 English
American 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 Suffixes
An affix is a bound morpheme that attaches to the stem of a word to form either a new word or...
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