Grammars

Word GRAMMARS
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Definitions and meanings of "Grammars"

What do we mean by grammars?

A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.

The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).

A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.

A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.

Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.

A formal system defining a formal language

The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.

A textbook.

A grammar school.

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The word "grammars" in example sentences

The discourse aspect of why passives are chosen is mostly neglected in grammars, especially grammars for students, and it is great to see it highlighted so clearly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a wider sense, the phrase refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In SF, of course, the introduction of epistemic necessity that I'd consider crucial to those narrative grammars is entirely optional. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

A fractal, a term he coined while leafing through one of his sons 'Latin grammars (it comes from the word for "broken"), is a shape or pattern that repeats over and over at different scales in the same object or set of data — the way that broccoli florets are a small-scale image of the whole vegetable, for instance, or the way stars cluster into galaxies that in turn group into in galaxy clusters, or the way the fluctuations of stock prices during an hour can, statistically speaking, look similar to the way they move around in a day or a month. ❋ Richard Hudson (2010)

In essence then, I think Clute's schema of narrative grammars is flawed in where it places its labels and in what it disregards because of that, but I think it opens up two distinct (and distinctly useful) lines of approach to a text, one focused on the conceptual use of the strange in all of three "genres" of fiction, the other focused on a set of narrative grammars crudely understandable as a sort of spectrum running from Horror through Noir/Thriller and Mystery/Adventure to Heroic Fantasy but open to a more sophisticated view in so far as those genres are viewed as superficial interpretations of an underlying dynamics of subjunctivities, boulomaic modalities and epistemic necessities. posted by Hal Duncan | 7: 41 PM ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

I’ve spent maybe two years already reading various Latin grammars (especially M&F and Wheelock’s), and fumbling around the Latin forums and materials at Textkit, and found myself none the wiser. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This left us with a set of common band name grammars (popular ones were NNP NNP and NNP #.) ❋ Unknown (2002)

Or maybe dismissing it all as an apologia for the grammars is a cunning way of closing down any kind of debate about any kind of selection. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They tend to have complex grammars, which is why usually hundreds of hours of tuition are needed to master them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some are written using the [[Latin alphabet]] used by [[English language | English]] and other Indo-European languages, but some use other alphabets such as the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. insanely complex grammars, which is why usually hundreds of hours of tuition are needed to master them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is why specialist schools such as grammars are so important, and why the refusal to commit to making them part of a palatte of educational options is such a foolish error on the part of Cameron who I voted for -- sorry, Iain! ❋ Unknown (2007)

The archive also collects materials about these languages, such as grammars, dictionaries, ethnographies, and research notes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Printed material such as grammars, dictionaries and histories, which helped New Zealanders to learn about Poles and Poland, had to be imported. ❋ Penny Griffith (1885)

His initial steps exploring connections among their distinct vocabularies and grammars established the branch of linguistic study that would later be named Indo-European. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The problem is really with the the term ‘focus’, which is used in the student grammars, but is not (as far as I know) used by grammarians or discourse analysts – who – as you rightly point out – prefer the term ‘topic’ (for whatever takes subject position) and ‘comment’ (for whatever is said about the topic, and which is typically ‘new information’). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But corpus data does at least help identify patterns that might otherwise have slipped through the net, especially in terms of teaching grammars, including those that have been mentioned in this thread. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An enthusiasm for compartmentalization, inherited from grammars of classical languages, has given rise to the elaborate architecture of the so-called tense system – including such grammar McNuggets as the future-in-the-past, and the past perfect continuous, not to mention the conditionals, first, second and third – features of the language that have little or no linguistic, let alone psychological, reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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