If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

This is the repository for my 6.S981 final project: Grammar Learning for Natural Language Syntax. Here, we formulate grammar learning as a program synthesis problem. Given an example text in a natural ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...

Have you ever wondered how the words we choose and the way we string sentences together impact what we’re trying to say? When it comes to writing and speaking, word choice and sentence structure, also ...

The huge number of studies that have productively investigated the interaction between grammar and pragmatics in the last decades provide us with clear evidence that many linguistic phenomena deserve ...