THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN by Grace Paley. 189 pages. Viking. $4.50. In this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out ...

Daniel Saldaña París's novel, Among Strange Victims, is a shaggy picaresque featuring devilishly clever syntax and a charming, hilarious tendency to digress. Saldaña París, born in Mexico City and now ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Discover experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, showing how Japanese great tits communicate with varied notes. Ordering words to create a variety of meanings (syntax) is a key ...