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antithesis
antithesis , a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. Parallelism of expression serves to emphasize opposition of ideas. The familiar phrase "Man proposes, God disposes" is an example of antithesis, as is... Read more
dative
dative [Lat.,=giving], in Latin grammar, the case typically used to refer to an indirect object, i.e., a secondary recipient of an action. For example, him in I gave him a book is translated in Latin by a dative case. The Latin dative also has other uses; and the cases called dative in other ... Read more
prose
prose [Lat. prosa oratio= straightforward, or direct, speech], meaningful and grammatical written or spoken language that does not utilize the metrical structure, word transposition, or rhyme characteristic of poetry or verse; it is, however, raised above the level of lifeless composition or commo... Read more
Altaic
Altaic , subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ). Some scholars still consider Altaic an independent linguistic family. Spoken by over 130 million people, who occupy parts of a territory that stretches from E Europe across the Central Asian republics of K... Read more
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle 1900-1976, British philosopher. A graduate of Oxford, he became a tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, and later was Waynflete professor of metaphysical philosophy (1945-68) there. From 1947 to 1971 he was editor of the philosophical journal Mind. Like Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ryle was concer... Read more
language acquisition
language acquisition the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observation t... Read more
Romance languages
Romance languages group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages ). Also called Romanic, they are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Among the more i... Read more
grammar
grammar description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology ); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called morphemes; and the arrangement of the morphemes into phrases and sentences, called syntax. School grammars for the speaker... Read more
Latvian
Latvian or Lettish , a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages ). The mother tongue of close to 3 million persons living chiefly in Latvia, Latvian first became that country's official language in 1918, the year in which Latvian ... Read more
transformational-generative grammar
transformational-generative grammar linguistic theory associated with Noam Chomsky , particularly with his Syntactic Structures (1957), and with Chomsky's teacher Zellig Harris. Generative grammar attempts to define rules that can generate the infinite number of grammatical (well-formed) sentenc... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Grammatical"

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...
LANGUAGE CHANGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...English before the shift occurred. Grammatical change Major changes in SYNTAX and MORPHOLOGY...inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. This situation has been much...Old English was more flexible because grammatical relations were made clear by the endings...
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...
GRAMMATICALITY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...rules that would distinguish between the grammatical or well-formed SENTENCES and the ungrammatical...introspection to provide samples of clearly grammatical and clearly ungrammatical sentences...example the extent to which sentences are grammatical for one regional or social variety but...
GENDER
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language GENDER. A grammatical distinction, in which such PARTS...those good towns). Distinctions in grammatical gender match some but not all natural...considerable discrepancies between grammatical and natural gender: German das M...
Edward Sapir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...that time and a particularly subtle grammatical typology that took into account the...linguistic drift, a theory arguing that grammatical change in language is never random but...of syntactic position; that is, the grammatical function of a word tends to be indicated...
MORPHEME
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...the unit of MORPHOLOGY and therefore grammatical. In this approach, language analysed...the morpheme is one of two units, one grammatical, one semantic, and each in its own...but which can be analysed as units of grammatical meaning ( morphemes ) and units of lexical...
grammar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...also concerned with the ordering of the grammatical sequences within the phrase, with agreement...other than their own. The scientific grammatical analysis of language began in the 19th...languages through comparative linguistics. Grammatical analysis was further developed in the...
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...
CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...similar path as they acquire sounds and grammatical structures, and broad similarities...of new words), but very little of grammatical structure is learned by simple imitation...establishing the order of emergence of sounds, grammatical structures, and (to a lesser extent...

Dictionary entries related to "Grammatical"

grammatical
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x2022; adj. of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis the grammatical function of a verb. ∎  well...productive rules of the grammar of a language: a grammatical sentence. DERIVATIVES: gram·mat...
universal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x220E;  Linguistics denoting or relating to a grammatical rule, set of rules, or other linguistic feature that is...general term. ∎  Linguistics a universal grammatical rule or linguistic feature. DERIVATIVES: u·ni...
Subject of the Unconscious
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...affirmation, and of course the two subjects of a sentence: the grammatical subject and the intentional subject. This duplication is...speaking being"), he didn't reduce it any further to a grammatical subject. His subject was either instinctual or empty (like...
Priscian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Priscian (6th century ad ), Byzantine grammarian. His Grammatical Institutions became one of the standard Latin grammatical works in the Middle Ages.
govern
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology govern rule with authority XIII; direct, regulate, sway XIV; (of grammatical regimen) XVI. — OF. governer (mod. gouverner ) :- L. gubernāre steer, direct, rule — Gr...
contract
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...involved in; C. reduce in compass or in limits. XVI. Based partly on earlier contract pp. (now used only of contracted grammatical forms) — OF. — L. contractus , pp. of contrahere , f. CON- + trahere draw. So contraction XIV...
case
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...XIV; (leg.) state of the facts, cause, suit XIV. ME. ca(a)s — (O)F. cas — L. cāsus fall, chance, grammatical case (tr. Gr. ptôsis lit. fall), f. base of cadere fall.
syncope
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology syncope (path.) failure of the heart's action; grammatical syncopation. XVI (XV † syncopis ). — late L. syncopē — Gr. sugkopḗ , f. SYN- + kop- strike, cut off.
deep structure
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...x2013;argument relationships are expressed, and both relates the words of a sentence to its meaning and expresses grammatical generalizations. Within the “standard theory” of transformational grammar the context-free base...
Mormons
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...America to establish religious order and truth. The authenticity of the text has been called in question because of its grammatical errors, its reminiscences of the Authorized Version , its resemblance to an unpublished novel, etc., but for Mormons...

Thesaurus entries related to "Grammatical"

grammatical
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus grammatical • adjective   1. the grammatical structure of a sentence synonyms : syntactic, morphological; linguistic.   2. a grammatical sentence synonyms : well-formed, correct, proper; acceptable, allowable.
dare
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...modal verb ( he dare not do it himself ). And the form it takes ( dares vs. dare in those examples) changes with that grammatical function. When dare is used as a full verb, it behaves just like most other verbs: it takes an -s with a third-person...
cupola
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...or connection in general—e.g.: “This is the age of parsing, a word that once referred to the grammatical analysis of sentences. Now it means playing games with words, as Bill Clinton did with the copula ‘is’...
one
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...best. Until quite recently, sentences in which one is followed by his or him were considered perfectly correct: one must try his best. These uses are now held to be less than perfectly grammatical (and possibly sexist as well).
model
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...guzzling cars). Paradigm can refer to an example that serves as a model, but today its use is primarily confined to a grammatical context, where it means a set giving all the various forms of a word, such as the conjugation of a verb.
dialect
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...substitute” vocabulary (“wheels” for car , “rug” for toupee ), grammatical distortions, and other departures from formal or polite usage. Argot refers to the slang of a group that feels threatened...
idiomatic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus idiomatic • adjective  the president lacks an ear for idiomatic English synonyms : vernacular, colloquial, everyday, conversational; natural, grammatical, correct.
solecism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus solecism • noun   1. a poem marred by solecisms synonyms : (grammatical) mistake, error, blunder; informal howler, blooper.   2. it would have been a solecism to answer synonyms : faux...
gender
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; USAGE NOTES   gender, sex The word gender has been used since the fourteenth century primarily as a grammatical term, referring to the classes of noun in Latin, Greek, German, and other languages designated as masculine , feminine...
oddity
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...peculiarity, abnormality, rarity, rareness, bizarreness. See odd 2.   3. the house is an oddity | this is a grammatical oddity synonyms : curiosity, rarity, anomaly, aberration, irregularity, phenomenon.   4. he is an oddity synonyms...

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Beyond sentence boundaries: Grammatical gender information in short-term recall of texts
Magazine article from: Memory & Cognition; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...to demonstrate that both meaning and grammatical gender information contribute to the...passages. Although it is known that grammatical gender information is used in anaphor...present experiment demonstrates that grammatical gender information, even when of no...
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Conceptual and grammatical characteristics of argument alternations: the case of decausative verbs *.
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Fluidity of early grammatical categories in Sanskrit.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; OUR RELIANCE ON THE GRAMMATICAL TRADITIONS such as the one formulated...Astadhyayi often leads us to assume that grammatical categories are fully defined and...us of the fluidity of the early grammatical categories. In this paper, I shall...
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Grammatical worries of writing lab consultants.
Newspaper article from: Writing Lab Newsletter; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...then, can directors discover what grammatical concerns need attention in training...being in the trenches, know best what grammatical problems worry them the most. Using...the lab based partially on their good grammatical knowledge. It is also true that because...