grammar

The Amazon’s Verbal Art: The World of Hixkaryana

Journey to the Amazon basin to explore Hixkaryana, one of the few confirmed languages with a default Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) word…

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The Sentence as a River: What is Information Structure?

This isn't just about grammar; it's about information structure, the art of packaging 'old' and 'new' information to guide your…

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The Unseen Work of a Speech Pathologist

Go beyond the classroom stereotype and into the complex world of the Speech-Language Pathologist. This article uncovers the unseen science…

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The Object’s Many Faces: Finnish Partitive Case

Dive into the Finnish partitive case, a grammatical feature that fundamentally changes how objects and actions are viewed in a…

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The Grammar of AI Art Prompts

Prompt engineering for AI image generators is more than just typing words; it's an emergent, functional language. This new "Prompt-ese"…

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German Filler Words: Sound Like a Native

Tired of your German sounding like it's straight from a textbook? This guide explores the essential filler words (Füllwörter) like…

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German Verb Power: Cracking the Prefix Code

Tired of memorizing endless German verb lists? This post cracks the code on German prefixes, revealing the linguistic LEGO system…

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The Future Subjunctive: A Fossil in Peru?

The future subjunctive, a verb tense dead in almost all spoken Spanish, is a ghost from the Golden Age. Yet,…

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The Plural of ‘Café’: A Dialect Test

How do you pluralize 'café'? The seemingly simple choice between 'cafés' and the colloquial 'cafeses' is actually a fascinating dialect…

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Canarian Spanish: The Atlantic Bridge

Discover how the Spanish of the Canary Islands became the crucial linguistic link between Spain and the Americas. The dialect's…

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