Grammar writing for a grammar-reading audience

Exploring Grammar in Writing

Given the similarities in cover, layout and design, Exploring Grammar in Writing seems to be intended as a sister publication to Exploring Grammar in Context (Carter, Hughes and McCarthy, 2000). Both are pitched at a broadly defined upper-intermediate to advanced level [1]. Both provide equally rich sources for dip-in supplementary materials. In addition, where the latter goes from Grammar to C...

Competitive Grammar Writing

Just as programming is the traditional introduction to computer science, writing grammars by hand is an excellent introduction to many topics in computational linguistics. We present and justify a well-tested introductory activity in which teams of mixed background compete to write probabilistic context-free grammars of English. The exercise brings together symbolic, probabilistic, algorithmic,...

Ambiguity Management in Grammar Writing

When lingusitically motivated grammars are implemented on a larger scale, and applied to real-life corpora, keeping track of ambiguity sources becomes a difficult task. Yet it is of great importance, since unintended ambiguities arising from underrestricted rules or interactions have to be distinguished from linguistically warranted ambiguities. In this paper we report on various tools in the X...

Writing a Sociolinguistic Grammar of Faetar

The Universal Grammar of Reading

Reading has universal properties that can be seen across the world’s writing systems. The most important one is the universal language constraint: All writing systems represent spoken languages, a universal with consequences for reading processes. These consequences are seen most clearly at the broad principle level: the principle that reading universally requires the reader to make links to la...