Sentence examples for descriptive grammar from inspiring English sources

Criticizing the previous static views of grammar (descriptive grammar, prescriptive grammar, pedagogical grammar), Larsen-Freeman (2003) emphasized the importance of grammaring, an approach in which teaching grammar is less "knowledge-centered" (p.24).

"That's why we've got the language centre: to do all the linguistic analysis work necessary for a dictionary and a full descriptive grammar.

Although there is no standard or official writing system for Ottawa, a widely accepted system is used in a recent dictionary of Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe, a collection of texts, and a descriptive grammar.

Valentine has published a comprehensive descriptive grammar, a volume of texts including detailed analysis, as well as a survey of Ojibwe dialects that includes extensive description and analysis of Ottawa dialect features.

Avoid descriptive grammar.

Understand descriptive grammar.

This coming week in Helsinki, postdoc Bernat Bardagil Mas will present a talk titled Rethinking the documentation trilogy in endangered language research at a conference called Descriptive grammars and typology.

Following Brentano, he favoured problems on the borderline of descriptive psychology, grammar and logic (he supplemented his object/content distinction by that of actions/products).

Set at the third-rate Wicomico State Teachers College in Maryland, the novel contains fine scenes of academic nonsense, as when the protagonist and anti-hero Jacob Horner wows the professoriate in a job interview with platitudes about igniting sparks in the minds of students, or in a session with his shrink, wonders whether he should teach "descriptive or prescriptive grammar" in the classroom.

Preschool English language acquisition of vocabulary, grammar and descriptive phrasing predicted school reading ability in a prospective longitudinal US study.

The attribute system uses the pattern-matching system to gain the descriptive advantages of an attribute grammar system (easy access to local context and a declarative functional specification) without inheriting the difficulties of a monolithic specification factored by an often irrelevant abstract syntax.