Grammar Definition
grammar
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Etymology
From Middle English gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatike, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (gramma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (grapho, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerebh- (“to scratch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
grammar (countable and uncountable; plural grammars)
- A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
- (uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
- A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
- (computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- (computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
- The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
- 2011, Javier Solana and Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power:
- We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
- 2011, Javier Solana and Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power:
- (UK, archaic) a textbook.
Synonyms
- (linguistics): morpho-syntax (from the relationship between morphology and syntax)
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See also
- Grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Appendix:Glossary of grammar
- Category:Grammar
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Manx
Noun
grammar m.
Mutation
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis | |
| grammar | ghrammar | ngrammar | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
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