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 ...

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 ...

The other day my Edinburgh colleague Professor D. Robert Ladd noticed an odd verb form in a subhead in The Guardian, under the arresting headline “Parisians carry on shopping as mass graves are ...