A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

Sometimes in a sentence, one verb follows another. For example, I want to buy an electric car. The first verb is 'want', the second verb is 'buy'. In sentences like this, there are different possible ...

Agrammatic aphasia is a neurogenic language disorder most notably characterised by simplified sentence structure and marked difficulties in producing complex verb inflections. Patients with this ...