I often sport a bow tie at formal events. I like bow ties because I think they look good, and even I can’t inflict food stains a bow tie. I order all my bow ties from a Vermont company named Beau Ties ...

The first four classes are based on Vendler and are sometimes called the Vendler event classes. The last class, semelfactive, was discovered later. Seealso Brinton, The Development of English ...

A thoughtful compliment can make your day…unless it’s backhanded, of course. A complement (spelled with an “e” instead of an “i”) can also be a good thing, but in a much different way. What’s the ...

Everyone knows that language changes. It's easy to pick out words that have only been recently introduced (bromance, YOLO, derp) or sentence constructions that have gone out of style (“How do you do?” ...

Abstract: This squib carries out an initial contrastive analysis of English and Russian phase (a.k.a. aspectual) verbs. Following Fukuda's (2008; 2009) syntactic account of English, I assume English ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Italian sentences which appear to lack propositional arguments of verbs are shown to be base-generated without these verb complements. This ...