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The concept of non-configurationality was developed by grammarians working within Noam Chomsky's generative framework. Some of these linguists observed that the Syntactic Universals proposed by Chomsky and which required a rigid phrase structure was challenged by the syntax of some of the world's languages that had a much less rigid syntax than that of the languages on which Chomsky had based ...
In addition, professional typesetting programs almost always provide for the use of an exception dictionary, in part because no algorithm hyphenates all words correctly, and in part because different publishers will follow different dictionaries. Different publishers may also have different rules about permissible hyphenation.
Placing accent marks in article titles (and hence in bold in the first line of an article) that are not usually pronounced by English people that way and not usually included in reliable sources may allow a person educated in the use of accent marks, to pronounce the word as it is pronounced by a native of the subject of an article, and at the ...
Linguistic prescription is a part of a language standardization process. [20] The chief aim of linguistic prescription is to specify socially preferred language forms (either generally, as in Standard English, or in style and register) in a way that is easily taught and learned. [21]
Scrambling is a syntactic phenomenon wherein sentences can be formulated using a variety of different word orders without a substantial change in meaning. Instead the reordering of words, from their canonical position, has consequences on their contribution to the discourse (i.e., the information's "newness" to the conversation).
Just after winning a gold medal in the individual vault final in Paris on Aug. 3, Biles spoke during a press conference about the future of her signature vault. "This is my last, definitely ...
N.Y.C. subway platform (stock image) “I fell, and then she [the first assailant] stomped on me,” she continued, adding, “I got an impression in me that she was going to stomp me again, but ...
Thus "inflammable" is an auto-antonym, a word that can be its own antonym, depending on context. Because of the risk of confusion, style guides sometimes recommend using the unambiguous terms "flammable" and "not flammable". [43] Misconception: It is incorrect to use "nauseous" to refer to a person's state.