The ablative case in Sanskrit is the fifth case ( panchami ) in the grammar, and has similar function to that of Latin.

The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.

The canonical example of a context free grammar is parenthesis matching, which is representative of the general case.

Using to denote the size of the original grammar, the size blow-up in the worst case may range from to, depending on the transformation algorithm used.

In grammar, genitive ( abbreviated ; also called the possessive case or second case ) is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.

It may refer to the whole of English grammar — that is, to the grammars of all the speakers of the language — in which case, the term encompasses a great deal of variation.

) The use of the forms of a lexeme is governed by rules of grammar ; in the case of English verbs such as < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span >, these include subject-verb agreement and compound tense rules, which determine which form of a verb can be used in a given sentence.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

Some writers on English grammar employ the term subjective case instead of nominative to draw attention to the differences between the " standard " generic nominative and the way it is used in English.

The illative case was used extensively in older Lithuanian ; the first Lithuanian grammar book by Daniel Klein, that mentions both illative and į + accusative, calls the usage of the illative " more elegant ".

( Some definitions do not consider the second form of rule to be permitted, in which case a context-free grammar that can generate the empty word cannot be so transformed.

Using Landau symbols, the worst case running time of CYK is, where n is the length of the parsed string and | G | is the size of the CNF grammar G. This makes it one of the most efficient parsing algorithms in terms of worst-case asymptotic complexity, although other algorithms exist with better average running time in many practical scenarios.

Chomsky is clear that this is not in fact the case: a generative grammar models only the knowledge that underlies the human ability to speak and understand.

Some insist upon keeping as literal subtitles as possible, thus the editor would merely fix spelling and grammar mistakes, while other groups are more liberal with their editing, in which case the editor often rewrites / rewords lines in their entirety.

Traditional grammar does not always identify the gender of such names and this might be appropriate in their case ( line 686 ).

This is less likely to be the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the language proposed to be borrowing, or the calque contains less obvious imagery.

In this case, the pronoun yo (" I ") is grammatically optional ; both sentences mean " I love you " ( however, they may not have the same tone or intention — this depends on pragmatics rather than grammar ).

Animacy can have various effects on the grammar of a language, such as choice of pronoun ( what / who ), case endings, word order, or the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun.

The following example demonstrates the common case of parsing a computer language with two levels of grammar: lexical and syntactic.

In grammar, an oblique case ( abbreviated ; ) is a noun ( or pronoun ) case that is used when the noun or pronoun is the object of either a verb or a preposition.

For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.

The article la, like the demonstrative adjective tiu ( this, that ), nearly always occurs at the beginning of the noun phrase, but this is not required by the grammar, and exceptions occur in poetry.

For this reason Ganda linguists use the orthogonal numbering system when discussing Ganda grammar ( other than in the context of Bantu comparative linguistics ), giving the 10 traditional noun classes of that language.

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.

For example, rather than asserting that sentences are constructed by a rule that combines a noun phrase ( NP ) and a verb phrase ( VP ) ( e. g. the phrase structure rule S → NP VP ), in categorial grammar, such principles are embedded in the category of the head word itself.

Moreover, tone plays little role in modern Chinese grammar, though the tones descend from features in Old Chinese that did have morphological significance ( e. g. changing a verb to a noun or vice-versa ).

Knowledge of the grammar of the language being scanned can also help determine if a word is likely to be a verb or a noun, for example, allowing greater accuracy.

In some modern theories of grammar, noun phrases with determiners are analyzed as having the determiner rather than the noun as their head ; they are then referred to as determiner phrases.

* De nomine, pronomine, et verbo (" On noun, pronoun, and verb "), an abridgment of part of his Institutiones for teaching grammar in schools

In Arabic grammar, the singulative is called اسم الوحدة, " noun of unity ".

In the grammar of natural languages, every sequence of the kind " x is y ", where x is a noun and y is a predicate, is acceptable.

* Adjectival noun or sometimes " adjectival ", a noun that functions as an adjective, especially in Japanese grammar

In some cases ( e. g. Exodus 3: 4, "... Elohim called unto him out of the midst of the bush ..."), it acts as a singular noun in Hebrew grammar, and is then generally understood to denote the single God of Israel.

The DP analysis of noun phrases is the majority view in generative grammar today, but it is a minority stance in the study of theoretical syntax in general.

In grammar, an antecedent is a noun, noun phrase, or clause to which an anaphor refers in a coreference.

Modern codification of the rule in English can be found in the mid 18th century with Anne Fisher's A New Grammar, generic use of the pronoun he has been preferred ( but not required ) in such constructions by many contemporary grammar and usage books.

# REDIRECT English grammar # There as pronoun

* Attraction ( grammar ), the process by which a relative pronoun takes on — that is, is " attracted to " — the case of its antecedent

In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent ( see binding ).

* In grammar, see indefinite article and indefinite pronoun.

* Mev, a singular masculine possessive pronoun in Istro-Romanian grammar, equivalent to English " my "

In English grammar and in particular in casual English, generic you or indefinite you is the pronoun you in its use in referring to an unspecified person, as opposed to its use as the second person pronoun.

For details about English, see English grammar: There as pronoun.