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Twenty-first-century grammarians of English might incorporate data derived from any of these sources. That was not necessarily true for their predecessors. However, it is worthwhile keeping in mind that, as Andrew Linn wrote, ‘grammar-writing in the modern age carries its past with it’ (2006: 74).
Aug 17, 2015 · It turns out, virtually all authoritative sources agree these rules are nonsense. We can consider the authority of historical texts before the advent of these pop grammar rules. Does historical record show that speakers were breaking these rules before they even existed?
May 6, 2002 · Thomas of Erfurt. Thomas of Erfurt was the most influential member of a group of later medieval philosophers known as the speculative grammarians or Modistae (Modists), after the central place they assigned to the modi significandi (modes of signification) of a word in their analyses of human discourse. The notion that a word, once it has been ...
Aug 27, 2008 · It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues ...
- Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
- August 27, 2008
- 1 Grammar in Language Education
- 2 Explicit and Implicit L2 Knowledge
- 3 Research Into The Processes of Acquisition of Second Language Grammar
- 4 Product Versus Process Perspectives on Grammar
Undoubtedly, many people would agree that grammar is an area of knowledge that needs to be investigated and studied. Grammatical knowledge that is usually dividable into a finite collection of rules is a helpful scaffold upon which learners can construct their command of a language. Language learners assisted by grammatical rules feel more comforta...
Well-grounded in cognitive psychology, the concepts of implicit and explicit knowledge and implicit and explicit memory have attracted the attention of second language acquisition researchers (e.g. Krashen 1981; Ellis 1994; Ellis 2004, 2005b, 2009a) who, apart from investigating the role of each of the concepts in language learning, have been inter...
According to Ellis (2008, p. 41), empirical studies of second language acquisition were inspired, on the one hand, by the need to verify the assumptions of competing linguistic theories of the 1960s and, on the other, by a willingness to devise effective ways of language teaching. Initially, the studies were limited to grammar and still, at present...
The most common conception of language is that it consists of lexical items and a finite set of morphological, syntactic and phonological rules. Thus, learning a foreign language consists in putting these systems into proper use. Many grammarians employ such terms as verb paradigms, grammar rules, norms, or parts of speech in their discussions of t...
The grammarians of antiquity, unlike some of their modern counterparts, seem to have had little interest in investigating 'what every speaker knows', at least as a large- scale project, consciously articulated and embarked on.
Nov 14, 2019 · Their system of analysis, essentially unaltered for two hundred years, is assumed in all dictionaries and almost all grammar textbooks today, despite its grave defects. The deepest errors stem from a longstanding confusion of category (word class) with function (grammatical or semantic relation).
