A transformational model of syntactic structures was used to describe children's grammar from under 3 years of age to over 7 years as a self-contained system and to indicate developmental trends. It ...

TOKYO, March 8 (UPI) --Syntax is the set of rules and principles that govern sentence structure and word order, allowing humans to communicate and derive meaning through and from language. Previous ...

People communicate meaning by combining words according to syntactic rules. But this ability is not limited solely to humans: A group of evolutionary biologists have discovered that Japanese great ...

I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...