Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

The grammatical description of each occurrence in the text must be retrieved from the dictionary to permit such an analysis.

the information cell assigned to each text form contains the address of the grammatical description of the form it represents.

An extension of the principle would permit entering a grammatical description of each form.

* Quality (< span lang = grc > poion </ span >, of what kind or description ) — examples: white, black, grammatical, hot, sweet, curved, straight.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

The book is couched in traditional grammatical terms as Doke had not yet established his innovative method of analysis and description for the Bantu languages.

In RRG, the description of a sentence in a particular language is formulated in terms of its semantic structure and communicative functions, as well as the grammatical procedures used to express these meanings.

# to give a description of the original grammatical structure of the languages as deduced from their intercomparison

This kind of linguistic description contrasts with linguistic prescription, an attempt to discourage or suppress some grammatical constructions, while promoting others.

The results were published as Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis, which includes a series of texts dictated by Santiago in addition to an extensive grammatical description and analysis of every word in the texts.

The resulting grammatical description, transcribed sentences, texts, and lexicon were published posthumously in a single volume.

Systemic functional grammar ( SFG ), a component of systemic functional linguistics ( SFL ), is a form of grammatical description originally developed by Michael Halliday in a career spanning more than 50 years.

Halliday's An Introduction to Functional Grammar ( in the third edition, with revisions by Christian Matthiessen ) sets out the description of these grammatical systems.

Chomsky frequently quotes Humboldt's description of language as a system which " makes infinite use of finite means ", meaning that an infinite number of sentences can be created using a finite number of grammatical rules.

* The first grammatical description of the French language is published by Louis Maigret.

In RRG, the description of a sentence in a particular language is formulated in terms of ( a ) its logical ( semantic ) structure and communicative functions, and ( b ) the grammatical procedures that are available in the language for the expression of these meanings.

The first grammatical and lexical description of the Huastec language accessible to Europeans was by Fray Andrés de Olmos, who also wrote the first such grammars of Nahuatl and Totonac.

Watters ( 2005 ) published a mid-sized grammatical description of the Kusunda language, plus vocabulary, which shows that Kusunda is indeed a language isolate.

Nouns or pronouns taking the form of a possessive are sometimes described as being in the possessive case, although the description of possessives as constituting a grammatical case in languages like English is often disputed.

He shows that both these models are inadequate for the purpose of linguistic description and as a solution, proposes his own formal theory of syntax called transformational generative grammar ( TGG ), " a more powerful model combining phrase structure and grammatical transformations that might remedy these inadequacies.

A screeve is a term of grammatical description in traditional Georgian grammars that roughly corresponds to TAM ( tense – aspect – mood ) marking in the Western grammatical tradition.

The Diqduq ( 10th century ) is one of the earliest grammatical commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.

The Diqduq ( 10th century ) is one of the earliest grammatical commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.

For this reason, the earliest grammatical treatises on Arabic are often written by non-native speakers.

The notion of dependencies between grammatical units has existed since the earliest recorded grammars, e. g. Pāṇini, and the dependency concept therefore arguably predates the constituency notion by many centuries.

The earliest “ grammar checkers ” were basically programs that checked for punctuation and style inconsistencies, rather than finding many actual grammatical errors.

Ivar Aasen treated the dative case in detail in his work, Norsk Grammatik ( 1848 ), and use of Norwegian dative as a living grammatical case can be found in a few of the earliest Landsmål texts.

Of greater original value than the grammatical works of Ibn Ezra are his commentaries on most of the books of the Bible, of which, however, the Books of Chronicles have been lost.

We know of at least one " keeper of the books " who was employed to oversee the thousands of tablets on Sumerian and Babylonian materials, including literary texts, history, omens, astronomical calculations, mathematical tables, grammatical and linguistic tables, and dictionaries, and commercial records and laws.

He also published two introductory books to linguistics: Language: The basics ( 1995 ) and Introducing Linguistics ( coauthored with Bill Mayblin ) ( 2000 ), and several dictionaries on different topics of this science: A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics ( 1993 ), A dictionary of phonetics and phonology ( 1996 ), A student's dictionary of language and linguistics ( 1997 ), Key concepts in language and linguistics ( 1999 ), The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics ( 2000 ) and The Penguin dictionary of English grammar ( 2000 ).

In any case, Lewis notes, this is a philosophical position rather than a grammatical one, and so parents and teachers who give such books to their children and students are having them read the " work of amateur philosophers where they expected the work of professional grammarians.

His Commentarii grammatici in at least 29 books was a collection of linguistic, grammatical and antiquarian notes.

Another obstacle was the grammatical construction of Siddo.

He created the allegory of grammatical " conjugation " which was to have its successors throughout the Middle Ages.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

One of these was the property, an essential universal true of the species, but not in the definition ( in modern terms, some examples would be grammatical language, a property of man, or a spectral pattern characteristic of an element, both of which are defined in other ways ).

Sanskrit grammatical case was analyzed extensively.

Despite Kemp's official role, his real influence as an author was on the grammatical structure of the plank on tax hikes.

He could not take seriously anyone whose written German, to say nothing of his English and French, was as full of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes as Ribbentrop's.

Functional theories of grammar explain grammatical structures by their communicative functions, and understands the grammatical structures of language to be the result of an adaptive process by which grammar was " tailored " to serve communicative needs of its users.

Bloomfield's work in Indo-European beyond his dissertation was limited to an article on palatal consonants in Sanskrit and one article on the Sanskrit grammatical tradition associated with Pāṇini, in addition to a number of book reviews.

It was fully inflected with five grammatical cases ( nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental ), three grammatical numbers ( singular, plural, and dual ) and three grammatical genders ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ).

Gender in nouns was grammatical, as opposed to the natural gender that prevails in modern English.

The chief device of ancient Hebrew Biblical poetry, including many of the psalms, was parallelism, a rhetorical structure in which successive lines reflected each other in grammatical structure, sound structure, notional content, or all three.

Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word " gender " to refer to anything but grammatical categories.

The word was still widely attested, however, in the specific sense of grammatical gender ( the assignment of nouns to categories such as masculine, feminine and neuter ).

In certain circumstances, even words with primarily grammatical functions can be used as verbs or nouns, as in " We must look to the how's and not just the why's " or " Miranda was to-ing and fro-ing and not paying attention ".

Use of the: symbol to mark the discontinuity of a grammatical construction, or a pause of a length intermediate between that of a semicolon and that of a period, was introduced in English orthography around 1600.

With several languages being spoken in these plantations, a pidgin was formed, combining English vocabulary with grammatical structures typical of languages in the region.

Norris describes it as a language which " like poetry, uses words and images which can mean several, often contradictory, things at once " An early review of the book argued that Joyce was attempting " to employ language as a new medium, breaking down all grammatical usages, all time space values, all ordinary conceptions of context the theme is the language and the language the theme, and a language where every association of sound and free association is exploited.

The test, which was designed to investigate the manner in which children acquire grammatical understanding, was created in 1958.