Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. You would think that, with all the words we have in our language, it would be perfectly natural to replace a word in an ...
In the introductory chapter to their excellent corpus linguistics textbook, "The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics," Anne O'Keeffe and Michael McCarthy give a brief account of Cardinal Hugo of ...
In the jargon of linguistics, English lexicographer Henry Watson Fowler popularized the significant expression and precise term “collocation.” It is the sequence of words or terms which are found to ...