In this talk I discuss how language description benefits from typological frameworks, but language specific morphosyntactic criteria must take precedence over typological expectations (Haspelmath 2020 ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

Sometimes grammar is easy. You don’t even have to understand it to get it right. For example, without knowing the first thing about verb conjugation or subject pronouns, you probably have no ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

In a previous write-up, we started a discourse on PHRASES and CLAUSES as salient particles of a SENTENCE. STRUCTURAL and FUNCTIONAL types of sentences were also outlined as critical aspects worthy of ...

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 ...