It’s a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. “Every day we help people get back to their everyday,” proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does ...

Not long ago, I used as an example in this column "Having already missed two mortgage payments, Jane asked her mother if she could loan her some money." I was making the point that editors usually ...

We present an analysis of the general noun-modifying clause construction in Wiru (Trans–New Guinea). In this construction, a subordinate clause modifies a head noun, whether or not the head noun plays ...