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3.4. Poverty of the stimulus and Universal Grammar – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence...
Look at this sequence and guess what the next number in it should be: (1) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ? Most people would guess…
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3.5. Debating Universal Grammar – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
Since Chomsky proposed in the 1960s, the theory has split the field of linguistics in two—those who adopt his hypothesis and those who don’t. Unfortunately,…
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3.1. What is a grammar? – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
If you look up the word grammar in a dictionary, you will find that this word has many different meanings and usages, three of which…
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8.4. Adjectives and adverbs – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
As with the other parts of speech, adjectives and adverbs can be identified based on their morphological and syntactic distribution. Adjectives Inflection on...
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8.7. Case study: French possessive adjectives are not adjectives – The Linguistic Analysis of Word...
One common difference between descriptive grammars written by linguists and pedagogical grammars is how they use technical terminology. For instance, in French...
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6.6. Allomorphy – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
Sometimes a morpheme changes form in different contexts. The different forms of a morpheme are called . For example, the plural allomorph of English takes…
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7. Predicates, arguments, and clauses – The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
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