Did you attend this year's #EnglishGrammarDay? Check out this review by Peter Clark: languagemiscellany.com/2025/08/engl...

This really annoyed me in today’s UK press, a day before A-level results day

Great turnout at the 2025 #EnglishGrammarDay organised by UCL’s @uclenglishusage.bsky.social, @engfac.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Next week! events.bl.uk/events/engli... #EnglishGrammarDay #Grammar #EnglishLanguage @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @debsadelight.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @billylinguist.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

New Substack post: On so-called adjective clauses: a label to avoid tinyurl.com/yc32zr4a #grammar #adjectiveclause #TeHirangaTangata #nzcurriculum

Another day, another daft grammar quiz: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/g...

Come to this fabulous event, hosted by Charlotte Brewer, Jonnie Robinson and me on 7 July. tinyurl.com/36z77b29 #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar @blevents.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Do our brains try to predict what’s coming next in a sentence? It may depend on the language you speak www.scientificamerican.com/article/does... #linguistics #language #neuroscience #English #Dutch @SciAm.bsky.social

I never use semicolons, except sometimes in lists. Do you? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"Could the English language die?" Nah.... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Book now for the English Grammar Day! Teachers: do bring your GCSE and A-level students! www.ucl.ac.uk/english/engl... #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar @blevents.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social

New Substack post: Can clauses function as Subject? basaarts.substack.com/p/can-clause... #grammar

New Substack post on Subjects. basaarts.substack.com/p/subjects #EnglishGrammar

Together with Charlotte Brewer and Jonnie Robinson I am one of the organisers of the #EnglishGrammarDay which will take place again at the British Library on 7 July. Book here: events.bl.uk/events/engli...

New verb 'anti-age' in The Times.

New Substack post: Can prepositional phrases function as Subject in a clause? basaarts.substack.com/p/can-prepos...

When did human language emerge? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The words 'wheel', 'cycle', and 'chakra' are distantly related. Via Germanic, Greek and Sanskrit, they can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of these languages. Sound changes made them grow apart. Moreover, 'Ku Klux (Klan)' is related too. Click for more:

New research chapter, just published: 'Verb Phrases as Attributive Nominal Modifiers' tinyurl.com/49crkbv4

New Substack post: 'Can adjective phrases function as Subject in a clause?' basaarts.substack.com/p/can-adject... #grammar #adjective

New Substack post: More on Predicative Complements: 'for' and 'as' basaarts.substack.com/p/more-on-pr... #grammar #EnglishGrammar

This film should be fun to watch. It comes out on the Americans' National Grammar Day, 4 March. www.rebelwithaclause.com @grammartable.bsky.social #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar #EnglishGrammar

Upcoming dates for online #CPD courses: English Grammar for Teachers 🗓️ 7 February Teaching English Grammar in Context 🗓️ 28 February 🔗Booking & more dates through 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... #NQT #ECT #PGCE #Literacy #Grammar

English Grammar Day is back for 2025! We're happy to announce we'll be returning to the British Library on 7 July with another great roster of speakers. The ticketing page will go live soon, so keep checking back for updates... #EnglishGrammarDay

The beautiful order of the Gəʕəz syllabary, with 7 orders (ä, u, i, a, e, ə/∅, o)

New Substack post: What is a Predicative Complement? basaarts.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

Adolph Diesterweg (1790-1866), educator and father of publisher Moritz Diesterweg, in 1830 wrote *Praktischer Lehrgang* for German teachers. AFAIK it contains the first clause-internal graphical analysis. The use of braces is actually well thought-out. #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Occitan is a Romance language spoken in several european regions also referred as Occitania! Es una lenga bèla! 💛❤ #langsky #langtwt #languagelearning

Ambiguity of scope. (Spotted in London.)

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

"Recent studies have explored various approaches to grammar instruction, emphasizing the importance of contextualized teaching methods that integrate grammar into the writing process." tinyurl.com/4879jjww

‘Building sentence structure may be language specific’ www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

#Glagolitic was used to write Old #Church #Slavonic and its local varieties from 862/3 CE, in #Moravia, #Bulgaria, #Macedonia, #Croatia, Bohemia, and Poland. Its use survived up to the 19th century in Croatia. Full page: tinyurl.com/mwy64njj #writingscripts #linguistics #history #art #map #matuww

How cool is this?!! Monopoly, but #linguistics ! #langsky starkeycomics.com/2025/01/16/e...

New Substack post: 'Each' as a floating quantifier basaarts.substack.com/p/each-as-a-...

Reading a legal doc, I've come across what must be my favourite noun phrase for 2025 - "an aspirational floor". Semantic and pragmatic interpretations on a postcard... #Linguistics

New Substack post: Which word class do 'possessive' words belong to? Adjectives, determinatives or pronouns? basaarts.substack.com/p/which-word...

A fascinating and balanced insight into ‘Whorfianism’ and related ideas www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A persistent myth is that Japanese 'arigatō' (thank you) comes from Portuguese 'obrigado'. In reality, 'arigatō' was already used a century before the Portuguese first visited Japan. 'Obrigado', in turn, is first attested in the sense of "thank you" a century after the Portuguese arrival. 1/

GDoS Update #24D open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

I suspect that Labov would enjoy that eulogizing him is quickly incorporating variationist sociolinguistics on the pronunciation of his name

A child of so many tantrums? stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/a... via @SnoozeInBrief

New Substack Post Grammatical function: a relational concept basaarts.substack.com/p/grammatica...

Profound implications within neurolinguistics and second-language acquisition studies