I have a distinguished colleague who unceasingly tries to persuade me to see that my attempts at descriptive grammar really have a prescriptive subtext. We were both participants in a workshop on the ...

Professor Stefan Collini of the University of Cambridge says in a recent review article in Prospect Magazine: For some time now, it has been customary to label those who write about grammar and usage ...

Researchers have developed an intelligent computational model of the descriptive grammar of the Spanish language. This opens up new possibilities for the computational representation of languages and ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central ...

In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival ...