Just like Mom used to make...

[Daniel Ezra Johnson]

I find the following a wonderful retronym:

hand-crafted grammars

I read about them in Boersma and Hayes' article in the current Linguistic
Inquiry. It refers to grammars (esp. OT constraint rankings) constructed the
old-fashioned way, rather than by algorithm.

Is this new?
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