Re: off topic: voicerecognition & grammar, too

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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
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