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 ...
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 ...
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Even more pragmatic uses of inversion

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put 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?” ...