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Human beings, homo sapiens, are linguistic creatures. One of the things that make us particularly sapient is our ability to convert a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts into coherent language, interpretable by other similarly equipped creatures. This phenomenon is many-dimensional. When our thoughts leave our lips or shape our hands they take on a form, […]
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Why a textbook? For both of us, Discourse Syntax is our first textbook. We have both published critical monographs, research articles, and chapters for edited volumes, but, after two decades in the linguistics classroom, we felt it was time to harness our experience as linguists and teachers of linguistics and bring the two together in […]
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Now, I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi many times over, but I do believe there is a clear difference between a person truly deserving of that unfortunate title and others, like myself, who believe that some rules should just be common knowledge for native speakers of the English language.
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