Expertlatin
- What is an undergrad in linguistics?
- Do linguists care about grammar?
- What is grammar for a linguist?
- What is an example of reference grammar?
What is an undergrad in linguistics?
The undergraduate major in Linguistics introduces students to sounds and their patterns (phonetics and phonology), word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), how languages evolve over time (comparative and historical linguistics), how language is processed (cognitive science and ...
Do linguists care about grammar?
Linguists want to understand how language works. In order to do so, they must understand one of the components of the language: its grammar.
What is grammar for a linguist?
For linguists, grammar is simply the collection of principles defining how to put together a sentence. One sometimes hears people say that such-and-such a language 'has no grammar', but that is not true of any language. Every language has restrictions on how words must be arranged to construct a sentence.
What is an example of reference grammar?
In English grammar, a referent (REF-er-unt) is the person, thing, or idea that a word or expression denotes, stands for, or refers to. For example, the referent of the word door in the sentence "The black door is open" is a concrete object, a door—in this case, a specific black door.
