Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.

Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

The study of language change, when viewed through the lens of construction grammar, provides a dynamic framework for understanding how individual linguistic constructions evolve and spread within ...

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