See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

There’s a difference between me and I. In casual conversation, most people I know don’t worry too much about sounding proper. They don’t bother with “whom.” They say, “There’s a lot of people here” ...

Astrology has been a guiding force in human civilization for centuries, offering insights into personal, social, and cosmic ...

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 4, First Language Acquisition of East Asian Languages (Oct., 2000), pp. 325-351 (27 pages) This paper discusses the subject/object drop pattern found in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For a long time Japanese was taken to be a language lacking a subject-object asymmetry in subextraction. Two recent experimental studies have ...

The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If, for example, we direct our attention to the ...