Talk to most people about grammar and you’re likely to hear a lot about little issues that are, essentially, language trivia — matters like when to use “whom,” how to use “between” and whether you can ...

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...

Dave in Elkland, Pa., wrote to me recently about pronouns ending in “self” — myself, yourself and so on — and how annoying they can be at times. “‘Myself,’ in particular, drives me near distraction,” ...

This paper attempts to extend from syntax (basic word order) to morphology (the distribution of pronouns and their exponents) one of the three functional principles that Tomlin (1986) invokes in order ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article synthesizes the "alternative projection" view of the alternation between the DP + DP and DP + PP complement frames of English ...