Freezing up when asked 'Which is the subject?'—How to teach children who struggle to identify subjects, predicates, and sentence structures

There is a section on the homework worksheet that says, "Let's underline the subject." When you peek over their shoulder, it ...

Japanese as a Predicate-Centered Language: The Freedom and Constraints of Word Order

When learning Japanese, one often hears the claim: "Japanese has particles, so word order is very free." This statement has its merits. "Taro ga Hanako ni hon o ageta" can also be said as "Hon o Taro ...
Simon Fraser University

Argument Structure

Every predicate referring to an eventuality (events and states) must have at least one argument. Arguments are extensions of a predicate, that are required a part of the meaning of the predicate. An ...