GRAMMAR AND ITS TERMINOLOGY

Graphic linguistics and its terminology

DURING the past thirty years great advances have been made towards making the study of language a science, but leading linguists have been mainly concerned with spoken language. There has been a certain tendency to suggest that the study of written documents should always be subsidiary to that of some spoken idiom, or even that it is bound to be less scientific than that of spoken idioms, and p...

Re-designing Online Terminology Resources for German Grammar

The compilation of terminological vocabularies plays a central role in the organization and retrieval of scientific texts. Both simple keyword lists as well as sophisticated modellings of relationships between terminological concepts can make a most valuable contribution to the analysis, classification, and finding of appropriate digital documents, either on the Web or within local repositories...

EUS: confusion about terminology and its consequences.

Grammar Modularity and its Impact on Grammar Documentation

This paper addresses the documentation of large-scale grammars.1 We argue that grammar implementation differs from ordinary software programs: the concept of modules, as known from software engineering, cannot be transferred directly to grammar implementations, due to grammar-specific properties. These properties also put special constraints on the form of grammar documentation. To fulfill thes...

Panini's Grammar and Its Computerization: A Construction Grammar Approach

This article reviews the impact of modern theoretical views on our understanding of the nature and purpose of the grammar of Pāṇini (ca. 350 BCE), and argues that new possibilities for progress open up for our understanding of this ancient grammar by confronting it not with the presuppositions of generative grammar as has been done – with undeniable but limited theoretical profit -in the last f...