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Monthly Archives: November 2020
Updating our grammatical typology
We now have the following categories in our grammatical taxonomy: determinants nouns pronouns verbs prepositions and postpositions determinant modifiers noun modifiers, i.e. adjectives adjective modifiers verb modifiers, i.e. adverbs (but in a restricted sense with regard to classical grammar) adverb … Continue reading
On the category of adverb modifiers
Let’s continue to rethink the gruesome (so is it argued here) category of adverbs (in the classical sense). Let’s now turn our attention to the category of ‘adverb modifiers’. Adverbs are understood here in a restricted sense: they are either … Continue reading
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The case of adjective modifiers and the notion of grammatical proof
Let’s consider again the case of adjective modifiers (in classical grammar, this category of words are considered as degree adverbs). These include the following: peu, très, extrêmement, surtout, étonnamment, à peine, vraiment, assez, bien, trop, tellement, … = pocu, assai, estremamente, … Continue reading
The status of adverbs
What are adverbs in the present grammatical taxonomy? Adverbs have a much more restrictive definition here than in their traditional definition. Adverbs in this typology are verb modifiers. Therefore, adverbs are distinct from: adjective modifiers (such as peu, très, extrêmement, … Continue reading
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The status of adjective modifiers
What is the status of adjective modifiers (tant, tout juste, un rien, un tantinet, très, extrêmement, … = so much, just a little, a little, a little, very, extremely, …) in the present grammatical typology? Adjectives are defined as noun … Continue reading
Grammatical typology again
What are the characteristics of the resulting grammatical typology? We now have the following categories: determinants nouns pronouns verbs prepositions and postpositions determinant modifiers noun modifiers, i.e. adjectives adjective modifiers verb modifiers, i.e. adverbs but in a restricted sense
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The status of adjectives
What is the status of adjectives in the present grammatical typology? The notion of modifier is central to this taxonomy. Thus, the adjective is a noun modifier. In the expression ‘the blue sky’, ‘blue’ is a modifier of the noun … Continue reading
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The case of new words for machine translation
Another case that argues for the use of rule-based translation, i.e. human-like, is the following. Frequently we come across a new word, a word we have never seen before. More often than not, a human knows how to translate it. … Continue reading
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