The rules are simply the rules, passed down in good grammar books. But who wrote the first one, and how? If field linguists study an isolated group to write the first grammar of their language ...

From “The Grammar of Fantasy.”Credit...Matthew Forsythe Supported by By Mac Barnett Mac Barnett’s many children’s books include “The First Cat in Space,” illustrated by Shawn Harris ...

WHY DO PEOPLE buy books on English usage? The obvious answer, “for authoritative advice”, doesn’t square with what people actually buy. For decades the best-selling grammar book in the ...

A silver lining of this yearlong “lull,” as he called it: Mitchell discovered self-help books. Eventually he ... Now, under the name of his alter ego, MC Grammar, Mitchell has become a wildly ...

It is the job of a linguist to provide a snapshot of that grammar, as in the book I have written — ‘Introduction to Tiwa Grammar’. Languages are vast and no written grammar can ever capture ...