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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
Avant-Garde: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...the Russian futurists, the densely allusive modernist epic of Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972), and the graphic and grammatical minimalism of concrete poets; in film, to the lush romanticism of Stan Brakhage's (1933 – 2003) handmade...
Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...State jurisdiction at all. Now, I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens] that reading the language in its grammatical and legal construction it is a grant of the fullest and most ample power to Congress to make all laws "necessary and proper...
Censorinus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...grammar, collection of knowledge . Censorinus wrote two works. The one entitled De accentibus , which dealt with grammatical questions and was praised by Flavius Magnus Cassiodorus Senator and Priscian, has been lost. The second, De die natali...
Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...to study the mathematical disciplines, or music, or even classical philology, which also attracted him because of its grammatical and moral harmony. It is not known why he did not choose philology. He probable gave up his musical career when, on seeking...
Abailard, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...As a discipline in its own right, it was expanding into the province of metaphysics . Combined with deeper inquiries into grammatical concepts, it was developing new distinctions, refining its procedures, and purifying itself from the sources of easy sophistry...
ungrammatical
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xB7;cal / ˌəngrəˈmatikəl / • adj. not conforming to grammatical rules; not well formed: ungrammatical sentences. DERIVATIVES: un·gram·mat·i·cal...
synthesis
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xA0; Gram. the process of making compound and derivative words. ∎  Linguistics the use of inflected forms rather than word order to express grammatical structure. DERIVATIVES: syn·the·sist n.
solecism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...cism / ˈsäləˌsizəm; ˈsō- / • n. a grammatical mistake in speech or writing. ∎  a breach of good manners; a piece of incorrect behavior. DERIVATIVES...
informal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...two companies. ∎  of or denoting a style of writing or conversational speech characterized by simple grammatical structures, familiar vocabulary, and use of idioms, e.g., tu in French. ∎  (of dress) casual...

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.
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...
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...
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).
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.
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’...
model
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...fueled car). 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.
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...
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...
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...

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Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek. By...often unaware of or unprepared for the grammatical requirements needed for language study...of Greek frequently need more work in grammatical concepts (English or otherwise) than...
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Variation in ASL: The Role of Grammatical Function
Magazine article from: Sign Language Studies; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...following sounds), stress, and the grammatical class of the word containing the /t...constrained by both phonological and grammatical factors. Houston (1991), for example...English is systematically conditioned by grammatical function, with the apical variant...
Grammatical calculator
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/30/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Jerusalem Post 12-30-2007 Headline: Grammatical calculator Byline: DAVID SHAMAH Edition...language skills, or lack thereof; a grammatical mistake in speech comes and goes in...language infamous for its inconsistent grammatical rules and weird spellings. That gave...
The implementation of grammatical functions in functional discourse grammar.
Magazine article from: Alfa: Revista de Lingüística; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Object, i.e. perspective is a non-grammatical notion. This seems to make the syntactic...be the case for a number of related grammatical phenomena that are not controlled by...actual assignment to clauses, and for grammatical relations in general, there is no real...
Why do languages lose grammatical categories? Latin and romance evidence.(Report)
Magazine article from: Romance Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...this article, I explore the loss of grammatical categories via two case studies on the...we have not yet determined why such grammatical categories are lost and that obtaining...the number of distinctions within a grammatical system, as shown, for example, by...
Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew. By GARY A. LONG. Peabody, Mass...study of English grammar. The author explains and illustrates the basic grammatical concepts of English and then proceeds to elucidate similar features...
Colonialism and grammatical representation; John Gilchrist and the analysis of the "Hindustani" language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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The shuffle: Grammatical rebellion
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 11/28/2008; ; 673 words ; ...even griping is beyond me, as Flowers is far from the first grammatical offender in popular music. Being a reporter and a music...latest lyrics but won't go anywhere near criticizing the grammatical imperfections of rap and country songs. Then again, slang...
NEWSPAPER MUST BE A GRAMMATICAL ROLE MODEL.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/8/2003; 466 words ; ...when departing from their scripts, we hear embarrassing grammatical errors from high-profile news personages! I don't know...Standard uses, or who does the proofing, but glaring grammatical errors are becoming more common. A recent example is in...