Hence, pedagogical grammar, or the description of the grammar of a language for teaching and learning purposes¸ is instrumental for teaching and learning language.
His innovations in the description of English grammar, particularly his efforts to dissociate it from Latin grammar, led 20th-century scholars to describe him as "one of the great grammarians of his time".
Some of these PhD theses continue to produce a number of books on systemic functional grammar.1 One of the early works is by McGregor (1990) on his description of the grammar of Gooniyandi.
This framework was further applied to the description of the grammar of TRANSITIVITY and THEME in English (Halliday 1967a, b, 1968), providing a model for the description of the lexicogrammar of other languages.
It might be possible to see Gondry's broken-English stumblings and random-association images as complementing Chomsky's descriptions of generative grammar, but I'm not sure this is entirely the case; in the nicest possible way, this is teacher-and-pupil stuff.
For example, descriptions of the grammar of MOOD in various languages classify clause structures as imperative, interrogative or declarative (Halliday 1994, Caffarel, Martin & Matthiessen 2004).
The police carried a body away, wiv skirts on.' Sugar considers tickling Caddie with a description of her faulty grammar made flesh: a procession of earnest moustachioed policemen, pretty skirts frou-frouing under their sombre overcoats.
A formal description of the XML grammar used to describe Mobyle programs is available on the project webpage (see http://bioweb2.pasteur.fr/projects/mobyle/downloads.html), using Relax NG (Clark et al., 2001).
The parameter-setting approach to machine translation is desirable because it simplifies the descriptions of natural grammars, facilitates the task of modifying and augmenting the system, accounts for cross-linguistic variation uniformly, and provides a more constrained theory of processing.
Wikipedia - Tajik Language Basic encyclopedia article on language with description of orthography and sketch of grammar.
