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Posts (latest 100 posts)
anata – ‘you’ in Japanese (6/6/2019)
Agent (5/25/2018)
The linguistic sign (5/15/2018)
The origin of English words (5/15/2018)
Active vs. passive sentence structures (5/2/2018)
Actants (4/17/2018)
In praise of lexicogrammar (1/26/2018)
Form and meaning in linguistics (1/25/2018)
Sometimes the adverb is obligatory and unmovable (12/5/2017)
Finding the subject of a sentence (9/20/2017)
Grammar or experience? (7/6/2017)
Why syntax over morphology (6/9/2017)
What is morphosyntax? (3/14/2017)
Don’t blame the computers for poor scores (12/8/2016)
Big data, Japan and education (9/13/2016)
Frequency is everything (8/10/2016)
Mental processing speed has gene link (10/24/2015)
Are dialects worth learning? (3/13/2015)
The system of a language (10/6/2014)
20,000 English teachers for Japan by 2019 (9/23/2014)
My doubts about formal grammar (2/9/2014)
Five or Seven Sentence Patterns? (10/19/2013)
Living abroad for three years will still only get you half the native speaker vocabulary size (6/9/2013)
Some thoughts on language and culture (5/19/2013)
The Origin of English Words (5/14/2013)
Hideo Kageyama Rocks (4/5/2013)
English Phonetic Chart (3/13/2013)
Learning languages: the importance of motivation, repetition, authenticity, proportion of time (1/30/2012)
Do Japanese really need compulsory English? (1/29/2012)
Literature, second language, authenticity, passion (10/29/2011)
