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 ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

Discover experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, showing how Japanese great tits communicate with varied notes. Ordering words to create a variety of meanings (syntax) is a key ...