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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY. In LINGUISTICS , a class of units such as noun , verb , prepositional...as countable/uncountable , common/proper , animate/inanimate . Grammatical units such as subject and object, which refer to functional relationships...
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SUBJECT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...distinction is sometimes made between the grammatical subject (as characterized above...is what is said about the topic. The grammatical and psychological subjects typically...these sentences, although it is the grammatical subject in only the first: Our children...
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language acquisition
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...are founded on a "deep structure" of grammatical rules that are universal and that correspond...Children at first may overgeneralize grammatical rules and say, for example, goed...they have intuited or deduced complex grammatical rules (here, how to conjugate regular...
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Romance languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the parent tongue. For example, although Latin had three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), the individual...for the noun, retaining only one case. As a result, the grammatical relationships of words are clarified chiefly by prepositions...
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gender
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...garden] and la table [the table], being instances of grammatical gender. In German, Russian, and Latin there are three...ships, for example, are sometimes referred to as she. The grammatical device of concord, or agreement, is bound up with gender...
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Sea Islanders
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Gullah lexicon is composed of mostly English words, its grammatical rules are demonstrably closer to West African languages such...Mandinka, Igbo, Twi, and Yoruba. It is on the basis of these grammatical features and on the lack of intelligibility to English speakers...
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Webster, Noah
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...long series of American schoolbooks, a speller titled A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Part I (1783). Known...history of American elementary education. Part II of the Grammatical Institute, a grammar, reprinted often under various titles...
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TOK PISIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Even where items derived from English are used to express grammatical categories, their patterns and meanings often follow structures...languages. The element -pela (fellow) serves additional grammatical ends as a suffix marking attributives: gutpela man a good...
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LANGUAGE TEACHING
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...translation of specially constructed sentences that were keyed to lessons centred on particular grammatical points, learners could be exposed to the grammatical and stylistic range of the target language in an economical and systematic way. The reform...
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NEUTER
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
NEUTER . A term referring to grammatical GENDER in nouns and related words, contrasting with masculine...LATIN . Although there is some connection between natural and grammatical gender in such languages, a word which is grammatically neuter...
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