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A body of rules, features, or generalizations which reliably differentiate between grammatical and ungrammatical constructions.
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Are there a finite number of noun phrase rules for nlp?
For example, a noun phrase might break up into these ways:
You should eat [noun phrase]
You should eat fish
You should eat the fish
You should eat the fresh fish
You should eat NP(N)
You should eat …
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Complete guide to cross-language grammar [closed]
Wondering what the best (free) resources are for learning about grammar generically across languages. I have seen a lot of "Guide to the X grammar", but not "Guide to grammar in general". … Would like to find a resource that describes grammar cross-linguistically. …
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The languages with the most complicated grammars [closed]
It looks like Navajo has a very difficult-to-tease-apart verb morphology, as seen here:
Unusually for a natively North American language, Navajo is sometimes described as fusional due to its compl …
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Do any languages treat I/me/my/mine in a singular way as a third-person entity?
Are there any examples of languages which avoid the use of objective me, possessive my, possessive pronoun mine, reflexive myself, etc., and somehow combine some concept/word in addition to using some …
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The linguistic terms for "chains" of similar structures (review material)
Could someone help me identify what these are?
I know that "noun chains" are called "noun phrases", and "verb chains" are called "verb phrases", but I don't know the equivalent for adverbs, adjective …
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What are all the primary variants of these languages? [closed]
In order to make the transliterator more precise, it looks like I am going to need to distinguish between different versions of a language. My question is, is this the complete list of languages and t …
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When/how did "articles" like "the" first appear in language?
I am wondering this sort of cross-linguistically. I know many (most?) languages don't have a word for "the", but the English language does. First part of the question is, did Middle English and Old En …
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How to construct a grammar given a text and a dictionary
How to go about figuring out the grammar. … This paper suggests a 500-800 page reference grammar takes ~5-10 years to complete, so I don't plan on doing anything like that. …
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Example of a tenseless sentence
And so in a language like Chinese, you don't need to have tense built into the grammar. You would just instead do something like this:
Way back in the day, we do x. …
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Why do languages modify their words for different moods?
At the bottom on Wikipedia's Grammatical Moods page they list a bunch of different moods, but not all of them. I have yet to find a list of all moods across languages (if you know of one please commen …
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Why Creole languages aren't the default
But if that's the case, that a Creole is basically the simplest grammar a child needs to communicate (or at least is a simple grammar), I wonder why we don't all just speak Creole, and why there is instead …
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How definitive are "patterns" in grammar across languages?
I've heard about how there were ancient grammar books written. Does this mean it was constructed with rules? … But they usually are few in the grammar books in comparison to the length of the grammar book. 10,000 sentences and 100,000 words might be a good start. …
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What are the unique features of the Australian Aboriginal Languages compared to other world ...
Not looking phonologically but grammatically, what are the languages which would be a good reference point for starting studies in Australian Aboriginal languages? Western Desert Language? Others? Are …
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Latest research on the meaning of prepositions
Trying to understand what a preposition is. Wikipedia gives some hints (adpositions are the general case of preposition/postposition/circumposition):
...Adpositions are classed as syntactic ele …
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How many sound-to-letter sequence mapping rules does English have compared to other languages?
In English (I haven't really thought too much about English yet), there are tons of what-seem-like one-off patterns.
(the "oo" sound)
tool /tul/
two /tu/
to /tu/
through /θɹu/
blue /blu/
queue /ku/
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