Using and understanding phrasal verbs is essential to the ESL learner in order to fully comprehend the language and sound native-like. “No one can speak or understand English, at least the informal register, without the knowledge of phrasal verbs” (Ce . . .

Language attrition is the process by which languages begin to lose features and may ultimately become extinct. When a language dies, it is a huge loss in terms of culture, identity, history, art, and ways of understanding the world. We are moving into . . .

Plural pronouns possess innate ambiguity of person, with the first-person plural "we '' able to also include and refer to addressees and "others", the roles typically thought of as 2nd and 3rd person. This inclusive ambiguity can be found in a linguis . . .

This paper offers an analysis of popular affective facial and emblematic hand emoji viewed through the lens of gesture. The internet, and its use a communication mode has grown beyond a 'growing trend' to become a ubiquitous format that is an essentia . . .

Klallam (Salishan) makes extensive use of reduplication, a morphological process in which a base is copied in part or in whole and then attached to that base in order to give it either grammatical inflection or a new derivational meaning. As is the ca . . .

This study examines the use of dative alternation in formal and informal spoken discourse to determine how specific verbs, or categories, are used in conversations. Instances will be collected as notebook data by the primary researcher, with context n . . .

This article focuses on the article published by Frederick Newmeyer in a recent issue of the journal "Language." Newmeyer said that, "if real speech, the argument goes, is not propositional, then grammars should not be either." In fact, this is Newmey . . .