Tailored within the increasingly competitive news environment, televised interview programs have adopted a range of moderating styles, heralding a rise in "combatant" and "comic" moderators to complement the conventional ...

Twitter provides a new and important tool for political actors, and is increasingly being used as such. In the 2010 midterm elections, the vast majority of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and virtually all ...

The rigors of the Minimalist Program eliminate movement operations, traces, and 1980s-style conditions of government. This article emphasizes poverty-of-stimulus problems, reviews lexical government effects, and captures ...

This article examines the ways in which explanation has been achieved in scientific work on language change over the last two hundred years. Explanations have come in many forms and at many levels and are greatly influenced ...

This paper discusses the life-cycle of languages: languages die, new languages are born, and languages undergo radical changes in form and structure. This paper considers three changes in the history of English: loss of ...

Book review of "Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach" by William Croft.