raymondaliasapollyon
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Woah, wait a second—that's rather controversial. Personally, I don't go with that at all. Syntax and morphology, yes, but phonology is quite different. And as somebody with a background in semantics, I would certainly not include semantics as part of grammar!
What theoretical camp do/did you belong to?
The series covers interfaces between core components of grammar, including syntax–morphology, syntax–semantics, syntax–phonology, syntax–pragmatics, ...
https://books.google.com.tw/books?i...rammar" semantics, syntax, morphology&f=false
Also see the definition of grammar on this publisher's website:
grammar | The mental representation of a speaker’s linguistic competence; what a speaker knows about a language, including its phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and lexicon. A linguistic description of a speaker’s mental grammar. |
Maybe very slightly but it's still the wrong word. We sometime use the words acceptable/unacceptable on this website, which I'm not crazy about but which I think are much better words. Another way to express this is to say that something 'works' or 'doesn't work', which I think is very appropriate.
anomalous sentence
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A sentence that is syntactically well formed but semantically meaningless. The best-known example, suggested by the US linguist and philosopher (Avram) Noam Chomsky (born 1928), is Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095415248
May I ask what you are trying to do here with this thread, and on this forum generally? Are you really interested in learning something or is it that you wish to try to teach us something? Or maybe you enjoy having argumentative discussions about linguistics? Are you, or have you been, a linguistics student? May I ask to what level? I only ask these last two questions to better help myself and other members improve our answers.
I do hold an MA in linguistics, and I'm interested in various aspects of English that are not covered in ESL/EFL materials. Very often I need native speakers' judgments on particular sentences.
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