hidden pixel

Grammar Definition

grammar

Contents

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatike, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (gramma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (grapho, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerebh- (“to scratch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

grammar (countable and uncountable; plural grammars)

  1. A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
  2. (uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
  3. A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
  4. (computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
  5. (computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
  6. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
    • 2011, Javier Solana and Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power:
      We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
  7. (UK, archaic) a textbook.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

External links

Manx

Noun

grammar m.

  1. grammar

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
grammar ghrammar ngrammar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Synonyms

Related terms

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Thu Dec 15 07:29:48 2011.
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

More Definition Results for "Grammar"
[Hide]▼
'Grammar' Images
'Grammar' Information

In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. Linguists do not normally use the term to refer to orthographical rules, although usage books and style guides that call themselves grammars may also refer to spelling and punctuation.
from: Wikipedia: grammar,
Tue Feb 21 04:20:13 2012
[Hide]▲