This paper continues the kind of contrastive analysis of relative clauses presented at the 1966 NAFSA Conference by Paul Schachter, Robert D. Wilson, and Lois McIntosh based upon a transformational ...

This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of restrictive relative clauses (RRCs) in Chinese by two groups of learners speaking typologically different first languages (Lis): English ...

The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex -- the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human evolution. New research adds ...

Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).

So we've done participles and gerunds, and because @glamAtude asked whether we could talk about appositives, here we go: An appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun and gives more ...

A trend in real estate development that was already in the making prior to the pandemic, the carving out of parts of shopping centers and mall parking lots to create "outparcels" for stores, ...