When students tackle grammatical problems: Exploring linguistic reasoning with linguistic metaconcepts in L1 grammar education

Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection

Linguistic evidence and grammatical theory.

This article surveys the major kinds of empirical evidence used by linguists, with a particular focus on the relevance of the evidence to the goals of generative grammar. After a background section overviewing the objectives and assumptions of that framework, three broad kinds of data are considered in the three subsequent sections: corpus data, judgment data, and (other) experimental data. The...

Linguistic-Valued Approximate Reasoning With Lattice Ordered Linguistic-Valued Credibility

Linguistic terms are often used to represent the truth degree or credibility degree to manage the uncertainty or imprecision as one of popular ways of knowledge representation in the perception-based decision making problem. This present work represents the credibility of uncertain knowledge using linguistic values. The linguistic-valued credibility is then modeled based on a lattice ordered lo...

Linguistic Grammar as Dynamic Logic

Natural language is the primary vehicle of human communication. It involves a series of interlocked processes at various levels of aggregation. Proof theory and dynamic logic provide two paradigms for dealing with this variety. This paper gives an analysis of some main issues that arise in merging the two viewpoints towards this broader goal. Topics discussed include: proof as discourse, interf...

Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar

The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of the relationship between linguistic typology and formal grammar—a relationship that has existed for several decades now and is unlikely to disappear any time soon. As the reader will see, the two orientations differ in a number of respects, but they share the custody of language, and that motivates the need for communication between the two....