单词 | general, philosophical or universal grammar |
释义 | > as lemmasgeneral, philosophical or universal grammar b. general, philosophical or universal grammar: the science which analyses those distinctions in thought which it is the purpose of grammatical forms more or less completely to render in expression, and which aims to furnish a scheme of classification capable of including all the grammatical categories recognized in actual languages. historical grammar: the study of the historical development of the inflectional forms and syntactical usages of a language. comparative grammar: the comparative treatment of the phenomena of two or more related languages, with the object of determining the nature and degree of their relationship. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > comparative linguistics comparative grammar1872 comparative philology1882 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. i. 2 These different Analyzings or Resolutions constitute what we call Philosophical, or Universal Grammar. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence i. §4 b Comparative Grammar informs us that the radical part of the verb is lov (or luf). 1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. i. §6 General grammar (philosophical grammar)..is..concerned with the general principles which underlie the grammatical phenomena of all languages. < as lemmas |
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