Re: off topic: voicerecognition & grammar, too

["Kari Eveli" lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

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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