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
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
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
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
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
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
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