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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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What's your explanatory model of grammar?

Does your explanatory model of, and approach to, grammar match the underlined part of this extract?

It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles
whereby a language can associate semantic and pragmatic interpretation principles
with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by
means of single phrase structure rules.


If so, should you be doing anything to change that approach?
  

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Anonymous Does your explanatory model of, and approach to, grammar match the underlined part of this extract? It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles whereby a language can associate semantic and pragmatic interpretation principles with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by means of single phrase structure rules. If so, should you be doing anything to change that approach?

  • Anonymous Does your explanatory model of, and approach to, grammar match the underlined part of this extract?
  • It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles whereby a language can associate semantic and pragmatic interpretation principles with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by means of single phrase structure rules.
  • If so, should you be doing anything to change that approach?
  • Yes, it does.
  • I believe phrase patterns are too small a unit to base grammar on.
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AnonymousDoes your explanatory model of, and approach to, grammar match the underlined part of this extract?

It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles
whereby a language can associate semantic and pragmatic interpretation principles
with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by

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