There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest is tree structure diagrams! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics ...

Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There’s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring.

Grammarians spent several thousand years trying to think about syntax ... in a working tree-bank of analyzed sentences. In Europe, some linguists saw an opportunity to make the diagrams even ...