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The Principal Step in Comparative Grammar

Language, 1950
[Reconstruction by the comparative method (as distinct from internal reconstruction based on alternations between phonemes in a paradigm) is essentially a problem in phonemics, in which the place of allophones is taken by sets of sound correspondences that are partially alike (share one component) and in complementary distribution.
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Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2012
Mandarin Chinese has two strategies for forming comparatives of superiority: one in which the standard of comparison is introduced by the morpheme bi, and one that resembles a transitive verb construction, in which the standard of comparison directly follows a gradable adjective.
Thomas Grano, Christopher Kennedy
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Evolving Compare-Exchange Networks Using Grammars

Artificial Life, 1995
We apply a genetic algorithm whose genotypes represent simple grammars to search for families of compare-exchange networks that are merging networks. The grammars are restricted to be of a simple form based on prior knowledge about the search domain. Finding merging networks in this fashion leads to the discovery of networks that also sort if the data
Richard K. Belew, Thomas E. Kammeyer, S. Gill Williamson   +2 more
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Easays in Aid of a Comparative Grammar of the Gaurian Language

1872
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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A Comparative Evaluation of French Grammar Checkers

CALICO Journal, 1995
Four grammar checkers, all of French Canadian origin, were evaluated in this study: Le Correcteur 101 (Le Correcteur), GramR, Hugo Plus (Hugo), and the French Proofing Tools for Word for Windows Ver. 6 (French Proofing Tools). All the programs except GramR exist in both IBM-PC and Macintosh versions.
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Nicobarese Comparative Grammar

, 2020
P. Sidwell
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THE COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION: THE ISSUE OF GRAMMAR AND MEANING

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1973
I read Dr. Lockard's very interesting comment on comparative psychology, I and was impressed not only with the scholarship he showed in it, but also by the fact that he feels comparative psychology has poduced mostly what in comparative anatomy and comparative physiology we call analogy, rather than homology.
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Vietnamese subcomparatives, the grammar of degrees, and comparative deletion

2020
Beck et al. (2009) conducted a cross-linguistic survey of degree constructions and proposed three parameters to classify languages according to the constructions they allow and their available interpretations: 1. whether a language has degrees in its semantics; 2. whether a language has degree abstraction; and 3.
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Reconstructing Grammar

2000
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining ...
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Computational Construction Grammar: Comparing ECG and FCG

2012
This chapter compares two computational frameworks developed over the last decade to support investigations into the emergence and use of language, Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) and Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG). Both of these representational formalisms are rooted in the construction grammar tradition, sharing basic assumptions about the ...
Nancy Chang, Vanessa Micelli, Joachim De Beule   +2 more
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