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 ...

Attention, grammar police! As a longtime copy editor and self-proclaimed “grammar enforcer,” I make it my mission to follow the rules of punctuation and syntax.

Smartphones, tablets, computers and televisions have eroded the influence of print newspapers, and texting has rendered punctuation, grammar and complete sentences as relevant as Edgar Bergen ...

I'm looking for pointers to set me on the right course to formalize both the way command syntax is specified and the commands themselves. I started with 2 BNF grammars, one for syntax and one for ...

Singing syntax They may not have verbs, nouns or past participles, but birds challenge the notion that humans alone have evolved grammatical rules. Bengal finches have their own versions of such ...