In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

Jeff Good can speak to media about a variety of topics relating to language, its evolution and its use in daily life. Among other topics, he is an expert on the study of word and sentence structure ...

A scarecrow, otherwise known as an agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun compound, guards a London garden in 2003. Photo by Cate Gillon/Getty Images The following post was excerpted from ...