Context-free grammar

2. Possible Causes for Lexical Change If one were to look at the epic Beowulf, one of the most important works written in Old English, one would notice that a significant amount of the words are barely corrigible to the modern English speaker. As such, it can be inferred that most of the Old English lexicon has been lost. One possible reason for this is the factor of history. One major influence toward the development of the English language is Latin. According to the book Words, Meaning and…

The Importance of Writing In Stephen King’s essay, “On Writing”, he talks compellingly about why we need to read and write at every opportunity. In the twenty-first century, humanity has entered a highly developed information era and modern media constantly pumps out material; but advanced technology can never replace writing. Regardless of the tricks that the newest technology can create, the basis of communication is still writing. It appears that people’s effectiveness to express themselves…

People say, “ college level writing comes from college level thinking”. However, students often fail to realize this truth and eventually, criticize their teachers for low grades. In my case, I always viewed myself as an average writer until I joined college.During high school years, when I hear English teachers lecture students on revising their writing, I usually produce an average essay eligible for a fair grade; most of the time, I did receive acceptable grades in those writing .Even so, I…

Don’t Get Caught Making These 10 Common Writing Mistakes, Or Else I know, right? Rules sometimes hinder creativity. This is the reason why some writers don’t like to follow rules on grammar and sentence construction. It’s so hard to play with words if you have to think about the restrictions. But if you 're writing a book or a formal paper, then you need to stick to the rules. There’s no other way to do it since you 're writing for a larger audience and much more formal audience. Now, if you…

Barriers to communication impede successful communication in the business world. The main language constraints mentioned in the Unit are as follows; Clichés are figurative phrases that have an implied meaning different than just a literal one. Especially for a person who is newly learning a language, the clichés as much as may be used in communication would not make much sense. Clichés do not necessarily have to fit in the situation they are applied and are mostly idiomatic. It is a good…

“Language variation means that a given language like English is not one uniform and homogeneous system, but that it contains many, slightly or strongly diverging subsystems or varieties.” (Dirven 2004: 204) In order to understand the term variety different concepts must be defined. This essay discusses the differences and similarities of the concepts of accent and dialect. While the first part of this essay deals with the term accent, the second part deals with its contrast term, the dialect.…

that inform, order, warn, undertaking utterances which have a straight force. Austin focused on illocutionary acts. An example of the Illocutionary Act is when we say, “Don´t run with scissors”. It has the force of a warning when speak in a certain context. The Perlocutionary Act is what we bring about or achieve by saying something, such as convincing, persuading, deterring, or even, surprising or misleading. An example of the Perlocutionary Act is when the speaker says, “Shut the window” which…

pragmatics can then be defined in a manner that delimits it from grammar, and at the same time shows the fact that both fields combine together in a consistent framework for studying language. So in the process of understanding the meaning of a sentence, one should take care of pragmatics, not just grammar. This conclusion does not delete the importance of grammar in the development of language. That leads us to the overall conclusion: grammar and pragmatics contribute in the language use. One…

ladies and gentlemen , Today i will be talking about the topic Language and Power. Can anyone tell me , What is language? “A language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” That’s the definition from the Oxford Dictionary. Now I’m not interested in the surface definition , this is for grade 5 kids in elementary school. I wanna go in - depth to applying it in real life situations to everything we do.…

Linguistic complexity is commonly defined as the variedness and elaborateness of language production (Ellis, 2003). The definition resembles the philosophical definition of complexity as a function of the number of a system’s constituent elements, the variety of these constituents, and the elaborateness of their inter- relations (Rescher, 1998). Accordingly, the measurement of linguistic complex- ity involves quantitatively measuring the number and nature of linguistic sub- components and the…