Harold in Clifton Park wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less." Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in the ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...