This paper investigates novel evidence from Russian Verb-Stranding Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VVPE), and argues for its use as a probe into the syntactic structure of morphophonologically inseparable but ...

A friend of mine recently started a conversation with these words: "Don't take this the wrong way…" I wish I could tell you what she said next. But I wasn't listening—my brain had stalled. I was ...

Any conversation in France is likely to be littered with verbal tics. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / AFP) They're the sort of phrases that provoke tuts from older relatives and despairing newspaper columns ...

Tense and aspect markers in Japanese relative clauses contrast with each other in unique ways not observed in matrix sentences. Different kinds of semantic contrasts appear under particular conditions ...

Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...

We all do it sometimes. We undermine ourselves by using less-effective language, verbal tics, and other oral miscues. That means there’s always room for improvement to help your messages get through ...

Ever been in a conversation where someone seems to be trying a little too hard to convince you of their good character? In a world where authenticity is a prized quality, psychology suggests that the ...