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7 The synthetic grammar of English – the conventional wisdom with subjects

6th January 2018David Lott Leave a comment

The synthetic grammar of a sentence is its internal functional structure, conventionally expressed in terms of the classes of subject, verb, object, complement and adverbial. My own ’umble feeling is that three-fifths of the conventional explanation of the internal functional… Continue reading →

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6 Distributive and integrative languages

31st December 2017David Lott Leave a comment

Previously here, I have introduced the idea of how the grammar of a language is a co-operation between its synthetic grammar and its analytic grammar. As explained earlier, the synthetic grammar is where the internal functional structure of the sentence… Continue reading →

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5 Words, inflections and morphemes

31st December 2017David Lott 3 Comments

Continuing in a vein of being clear, at least here, about what the intended meaning is of the building-block terms that we are using, let’s explore the meaning of three more key fundamental concepts and how we are using them.… Continue reading →

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4 I have a problem!

29th December 2017David Lott Leave a comment

Yes, more or less at this point in the thinking process being followed here, I’ve hit a problem that I’ve been mulling for a while. Don’t be concerned; I’m not going to get personal. It’s, as I see it at… Continue reading →

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3 Sentences – what are they?

27th December 2017David Lott 4 Comments

Culpa mea Much like others, I can, at times, bandy around words and only have a vague idea of what they actually mean to me and of what they mean to others. I can be so busy building ideas that… Continue reading →

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2 The analytic and synthetic levels of thought and grammar

24th August 2017David Lott Leave a comment

Analytic and synthetic thinking It has been suggested that some people have naturally analytic minds and others have naturally, or preter-naturally, synthetic minds. For example, if one says to Person A “I am going to say a sequence of words… Continue reading →

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1 What is grammar?

17th August 2017David Lott Leave a comment

Grammar is a system. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, you can’t smell it, you can’t hear it – not directly. All you can do is infer it, infer it as an abstract entity and infer how it… Continue reading →

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