It does have many interesting things to say about grammar. Actually, I am not saying that the mainstream is totally wrong. It is a big job to take on the mainstream approach in any field. This treatment of language on a local level (sentence by sentence) rather than on a global level has influenced the design of machine translation systems and we have seen the results in the telescope example. In fact, it has been a firm principle of mainstream linguistics for many years that the proper object of study is a single sentence in isolation, stripped of its context, its purpose, and its audience. And if mainstream linguistics ignores the meanings of words, it has no need to take into account the context of a sentence. If it is true that mainstream linguistics does not really deal with the general vocabulary in all its richness, then it should be no shock to learn that it ignores the basic fact we have been exploring, namely, that a word can have several meanings, even within the same grammatical category. Essentially, it deals with one very narrow slice of the pie of language that only appears to include general vocabulary and then calls that piece the whole pie. Uninteresting sentences that can be analyzed in isolation. This is because mainstream linguistics does not really deal with language in its entirety. It makes no mention of the distinction between general vocabulary and specialized terminology. Not surprisingly, given the way it ignores word meanings, mainstream linguistics does not stack up very well when presented with the three types of translation difficulty we have discussed. It classifies words only according to the grammatical categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Is indeed universal or not, it says very little about the meaning of an individual word. This is a bold thesis and the large number of linguists around the world are working within this approach. According to Universal Grammar, there is only one method of diagramming sentences, this method applies to all the languages of the world, and it is universal because it is genetically encoded into the brain of every human child. Mainstream linguistic theory has added a new dimension to sentence diagramming: Universal Grammar. A sentence diagram shows all the words of a sentence and how they fit together. Depending on when and where you went to high school, you may have encountered sentence diagramming or you may have missed it entirely. It is essentially a sophisticated form of sentence diagramming. Mainstream linguistic theory emphasizes grammatical relations in a sentence. Translation Research Group - TTT.org: Barker Lectureīarker Lecture Does Mainstream Linguistic Theory Come to the rescue?
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