Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.
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 ...
A few weeks ago Professor Eudine Barriteau gave this warning to primary school principals: “Invest in primary school education or pay the price.” She regards public primary education as the bedrock ...