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Grammar vs Linguistic - What's the difference?

grammar | linguistic |

As a noun grammar

is a system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.

As a verb grammar

is (obsolete|intransitive) to discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

As an adjective linguistic is

linguistic.

grammar

English

Alternative forms

* grammary

Noun

  • A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
  • (uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
  • A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
  • (computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
  • * 2006 , Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now! , §8.2
    • Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.
  • (computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
  • 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.
  • (British, archaic) A textbook.
    • a grammar of geography
  • (UK) A grammar school.
  • * 2012, Graeme Paton, A green light for more grammars ?'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 11 January 2012)

    • Synonyms

    * (linguistics) morpho-syntax (from the relationship between morphology and syntax)

    Hyponyms

    * * *

    Derived terms

    * * *

    Related terms

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * *

    External links

    * grammar] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary ----

    linguistic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to language.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
  • Of or relating to linguistics.
  • *
    • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
  • * 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:
    • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic