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Human natural language metalanguage
I was thinking about how a controlled grammar of English can be used as a programming language because it’s fully parsible.
The idea of doing this for other languages, such as Sanskrit, brought me to ...
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Is there a universal (general) definition of gerund, infinitive and participle?
Is there a universal (general) definition of gerund, infinitive and participle applicable to all languages despite the differences between them?
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Universal Grammar or Other Area of Study
So, what I am wondering about is what I should look up to study the following. From my understanding, there is a limited number of ways languages are implemented. That is, there is a set of abstract ...
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Induction of semantics for grammars of natural languages (as opposed to syntax)
I am learning about combinatory categorial grammars and the formal semantics of natural language, course by Partee http://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2005/MGU05_formal_semantics.htm (especially ...
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Could anyone explain this grammar question for me? [closed]
According to the grammar rule i have learned up to now, in Arabic people use the feminine form of adjective to describe plural noun (more than two).For instance,دفاتر كشيرة（many books),here we use ...
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“Such” as a pronoun and “Reduction Transformations”
I just ran into this in the novel "Pride and Prejudice"
-"Ah! you do not know what I suffer."
-"But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into ...
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