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  2. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    (Note: the case in Slavic languages termed the "locative case" in English is actually a prepositional case.) Pergressive case: vicinity: in the vicinity of the house Kamu: Pertingent case: contacting: touching the house Tlingit | Archi: Postessive case: posterior: after the house Lezgian | Agul: Subessive case: under: under/below the house Tsez ...

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Each edition has a sheet of proofreader's marks that appears to be the same apart from the language used to describe the marks. The section cautions that "it should be realised that the typesetter may not understand the language in which the text is written". English; French; German; Italian; etc.

  5. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The Chomsky hierarchy in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar describes how to form strings from a language's vocabulary (or alphabet) that are valid according to the language's syntax.

  6. Grammaticality - Wikipedia

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    According to Chomsky, a speaker's grammaticality judgement is based on two factors: . A native speaker's linguistic competence, which is the knowledge that they have of their language, allows them to easily judge whether a sentence is grammatical or ungrammatical based on intuitive introspection.

  7. Semantic space - Wikipedia

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    Semantic spaces [note 1] [1] in the natural language domain aim to create representations of natural language that are capable of capturing meaning. The original motivation for semantic spaces stems from two core challenges of natural language: Vocabulary mismatch (the fact that the same meaning can be expressed in many ways) and ambiguity of natural language (the fact that the same term can ...

  8. Thetical grammar - Wikipedia

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    Thetical grammar forms one of the two domains of discourse grammar, the other domain being sentence grammar.The building blocks of thetical grammar are theticals, [1] that is, linguistic expressions which are interpolated in, or juxtaposed to, clauses or sentences but syntactically, semantically and, typically, prosodically independent from these structures.

  9. Definiteness - Wikipedia

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    There are times when a grammatically marked definite noun phrase is not in fact identifiable. For example, the polar bear's habitat is the arctic does not refer to a unique, familiar, specific bear, in an example of a form-meaning mismatch. "The theoretical distinction between grammatical definiteness and cognitive identifiability has the ...