Many linguists have proposed that languages spoken by numerous non-native speakers tend to have simpler grammars. A new study challenges this claim. By analyzing a global sample of 1,314 languages, ...

Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously been poorly described or lacked description altogether. In ...

The bases of the human language faculty are now being investigated by means of highly specialised measurement techniques and with increasing success. Why can we understand complex sentences, while our ...

How you say something matters as much as what you say. At least that’s the opinion of many grammarians, who have been quibbling about Americans’ use of language for as long as there has been an ...

Description: Finite automata, regular expressions; push-down automata, context-free grammars; languages and behaviors. Closure properties, pumping lemmas, decision procedures. Deterministic ...

I'm attempting to write a Textmate language grammar and have run up against my own ignorance. In the language, some of the keywords start with a '#', for example #hide, #show, etc. My first was along ...