GRAMMAR

GRAMMAR

1. Traditional grammar

   • Parts of speech or word classes
     • Nouns
     • Articles
     • Adjectives
     • Verbs
     • Adverbs
     • Prepositions
     • Pronouns
     • Conjunctions
   • Traditional analysis
     • Agreement
       • Categories that help describe language structure
         • Number: singular(I, you, he, she, it.) or plural
         • Person: first, second, third
         • Tense: present, past, future
         • Voice: Active or passive
         • Gender: male entities(he,his), female entities(she,her), creatures or things(it, its)
           • Grammatical gender
           • Natural gender
     • Appropiateness
   • Origin in Greek and latin because they're the languages of religion, philosophy, scholarship and knowledge.

2. The perspective approach

   • A set of rules for the proper use of the language
   • You must not split an infinitive
     • Capitan Kirk's infinitive----> does not have a proper grammar according to the prescriptive approach
   • You must not end a sentences with a preposition

3. The descriptive approach

   • Language as it is really used
   • Structural analysis
     • The distribution of forms in a language
       • Test frames with ampty slots
         • Thanks to this analysis we can improve the old latin influence analysis of pronouns
           • Pronouns are used in place of noun phrases(not just nouns)
   • Constituent analysis
     • Designed to show how small constituents or components go together to make larger constituents
       • A basic step is to to see how words go together to form phrases

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