Re: off topic: voicerecognition & grammar, too

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, and I have some highly leveraged derivatives to sell you.



David Auerbach
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Box 8103
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103


On May 5, at 7:51 AM, flash@xxxxxxxx wrote:

IBM are getting close to perforating the distinction between syntax
and semattics:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021774.stm






-----Original Message-----
From: Kari Eveli 
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:56:54 +0300
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: off topic: voicerecognition & grammar, too


Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:


Briefly, I don't think syntax (or at least most of it) and usage

should be considered parts of grammar, but independent language
arts, at least in English, which lacking inflections has to
depend on syntax for much that would come under rules of concord
in Latin, Greek, or even German or Russian. This would pretty
much confine "grammar" to rules of concord (verbs should agree
with their subjects, pronouns with their antecedents), and such
few inflections as English has left (accidence).

Some dichotomies of language studies are:

lexicography and grammar, i.e. vocabulary and the rules that govern
their use, and


morphology and syntax, i.e. linguistic forms and the apparatus of
their correct arrangement (= taksis) together (= syn-).


The difference of these two dichotomies rather subtle, and
etymological in nature.


Usage is the customary way of using language forms (comprising
lexicography and grammar and/or morphology and syntax) in a
particular language community.


Being a professional lexicographer, I see the difference of
lexicography and grammar as a difference in perspective. A
lexicographer sees language from a vocabulary point of view, a
grammarian from a syntactical perspective. Both try to cover
vocabulary and grammar, but differently.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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