Of course, skepticism still abounds; one report in the journal declares the grammatical errors in the piece prove it's fake, while other researchers refute that claim.
The pair have developed a classification system that analyses the grammatical structure of a piece of text and assigns emotional labels to the words it contains, by looking them up in a 57,000-word "sentiment lexicon" compiled by people.
Aristotle's example of such an entity is an individual piece of grammatical knowledge (1a25).
Neither whiteness nor a piece of grammatical knowledge, for example, is capable of existing on its own.
Recent research has shown that written corrective feedback helps to improve learners' grammatical accuracy in new pieces of writing.
Even the lack of grammatical recursion in Pirahã, Mr Everett's key piece of evidence that it is culture that creates language, cannot tell the whole tale.
In short order I was gratifyingly defended by a number of linguists and language columnists (including Lane Greene, Oliver Kamm, Arnold Zwicky, and Ben Zimmer), who were incredulous that the New Yorker, which cultivates a reputation for assiduous fact-checking and meticulous attention to grammatical detail, could publish such a defiantly ignorant piece.
Check out for spell, formatting & grammatical errors.
We aim to achieve two goals simultaneously: our compressions should be grammatical, and they should retain the most important pieces of information.
I still have some faith, and I'm sure I'll see a comment at the end of a piece soon that says "not a single error, factual or grammatical, in this piece, it flows beautifully, the headline perfectly matches the copy and the caption sings".
Rather, they create new sentences that are grammatical, that cohere with one another, and that capture the most salient pieces of information in the original document.
