Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is based on a logical form based on proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal modifiers--roughly, the node S. A ...

Last week’s column discussed the two general forms of noun clauses in English, namely finite noun clauses and nonfinite noun clauses. A finite noun clause is a subordinate clause in which the ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is based on a logical form based on proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal modifiers--roughly, the node S. A ...