• Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by Jeremy Campbell, then Washington correspondent for the Evening Standard...
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  • Grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a linguistic process in which words change from representing objects or actions...
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  • In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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  • A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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  • In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two"...
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  • passive-voice construction, the subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles. The direct object gets promoted to subject, and the subject demoted...
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  • Decoding the Universe, Viking, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03441-X Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-44062-4 Henri Theil...
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  • understood as a category that expresses (grammaticalizes) time reference; namely one which, using grammatical means, places a state or action in time....
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    Grammatical evolution (GE) is a genetic programming (GP) technique (or approach) from evolutionary computation pioneered by Conor Ryan, JJ Collins and...
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  • oblique arguments, thus including other arguments not covered by core grammatical roles, such as those governed by case morphology (as in languages such...
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  • and modal. Structural particles are used for grammatical relations. Aspectual particles signal grammatical aspects. Modal particles express linguistic...
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  • Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form...
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  • likely in languages with free word order, and often agreement between the grammatical gender, number or other feature of the modifier and its head is used...
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  • have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category. A few languages...
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  • changing the noun itself (e.g. Danish en mand (a man), manden (the man)). There are times when a grammatically marked definite noun phrase is not in fact identifiable...
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    addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have been...
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  • instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts...
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  • and the Pendulum, Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0-471-32174-5 Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-44062-4 Henri Theil...
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  • Articles typically specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun phrase, but in many languages, they carry additional grammatical information such as gender...
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    In Spanish, grammatical gender is a linguistic feature that affects different types of words and how they agree with each other. It applies to nouns,...
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    in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense. For example...
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  • In linguistics, the grammatical patient, also called the target or undergoer, is a semantic role representing the participant of a situation upon whom...
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    Wiley-Blackwell Paperback 1992 Campbell, Jeremy Scientific skepticism Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life 0671440616 Simon & Schuster...
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  • language is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between...
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    A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
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  • that it is not true that Joe is currently located near the speaker. The grammatical category associated with affirmatives and negatives is called polarity...
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  • papers, articles in the financial section of a newspaper. Grammatical error correction Grammatical error detection and correction involves a great band-width...
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  • In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject...
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    rajul "the house of a man/a man's house". بَيْتُ الرَجُلِ baytu‿r-rajul "the house of the man/the man's house". The Arabic grammatical terminology for this...
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    process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender...
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