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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Adequate description

How can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this?

"...an account of the grammar of a language in only 400 pages is no more than a thumbnail sketch."

An Introduction to Functional Grammar. Halliday.
  

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Anonymous How can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this? No one around here needs anything that can't be found in the first 287 pages. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous How can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this?
  • No one around here needs anything that can't be found in the first 287 pages.
  • CJ
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AnonymousHow can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this?
No one around here needs anything that can't be found in the first 287 pages.

CJ
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So everyone here needs even less than a thumbnail sketch?
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AnonymousHow can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this?

"...an account of the grammar of a language in only 400 pages is no more than a thumbnail sketch."

An Introduction to Functional Grammar. Halliday.


There is a very interesting cluster of fallacies
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< a) Do Halliday's beliefs necessarily have any relation to members' hopes? [No, of course not.]>

Are you sure that you know what members' hopes are?
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AnonymousAre you sure that you know what members' hopes are?


No; nor did I say I was.

But I'm sure I know what "necessarily" means.

MrP

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CalifJim
AnonymousHow can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this?
No one around here needs anything that can't be found in the first 287 pages.

CJ

Hahaha, ROFL, right! [Y]

Do I need a master's degree in linguistics to
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KooyeenDo I need a master's degree in linguistics to learn a language?

Not in the least, of course; but someone with something to sell will naturally want to convince you that you need it.

MrP
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I`ve begun to realise just how anti-linguistics and anti-grammar you are, Kooyeen. I wonder why you don't spend more time at dictionary.com forums.
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<Instead of learning the theory that explains everything about "staring at the moon", you just look up "stare" in a learner's dictionary and learn that's the way it's used. Dictionaries need much more good examples though.>

Odd how one of the most popular ESL student forums on any collection of forums is always a grammar forum, isn' it?
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< Do I need a master's degree in linguistics to learn a language? >

No, but I guess you might need more than the ESL classes you had. Otherwise, why would you be here?
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