30.219, FYI: Free Grammar Book Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-219. Tue Jan 15 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.219, FYI: Free Grammar Book Online

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:40:59
From: Bruce Despain [bdespain at digis.net]
Subject: Free Grammar Book Online

 
Bruce Despain, an independent scholar, published an article in the Journal of
ATEG (Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar), Summer 2018, vol. 27, No.
1, entitled ''An Approach to Linguistics for High School Students.''  Mr.
Despain had been posting to their list for 20 years fielding queries about
some of the complexities of grammar and diagramming sentences.  The article
introduced teachers to a modern generative grammar.  In December of 2018 he
posted a book to his website called How to Write the Grammar of a Language: A
Generative Approach. This work elaborates on the methods and apparatus of the
formal grammar that he had developed using knowledge and experience
accumulated during a long career in artificial intelligence and data analysis.
 The data should be familiar to many linguists who like him had studied
Andreas Koutsoudas, Writing Transformational Grammars: An Introduction (1966).
 The present work introduces the formal analysis of 46 natural languages using
Koutsoudas's 133 corpora as exercises (65 thoroughly worked out) each to be
analyzed in terms of five modules, each module having its own syntax.  The
book may be accessed at https://bdespain.org under ''The Science of
Linguistics.''
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories





 



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