In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different ...

Traditionally, morphology dealt with the segmentalization of words into morphemes, and distribution of the allomorphs of a given morpheme. More recently it has come to be included in writing the ...

As students are expected to read more challenging texts, the academic language they contain can be daunting. But a certain type of vocabulary instruction could help students break tricky words down ...

In both German and English many fewer combinations of derivational suffixes exist than should be possible, given the types of selectional restrictions that have been posited in the existing literature ...