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‘Travelers in Grammar’ is a four-part journey. Most grammar guidance in this language story employs the word ‘can’. I do not want to prescribe language. I want to present a viable language perspective.
American English is the only English I have learned since I was a kid. However, I freely chose to learn American and I have never meant to impose it. The grammar approach could be localized for any other English in the world – opinions by speakers of various Englishes can matter.
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‘Travelers in Grammar’ is a new project to build on psycholinguistics. Full preview of part the journey can be seen here.
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The whole of this travel is four parts to guide the student from the basics to the intermediate level. The Advanced Traveler may give some more of the picture to involve a few bits of language history regarded as a process (Datta lie? Reading the mind). The Proficient Journey aspires to introduce the student to American literature (And they were happier than I am).
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Form can’t be empty. You bet. A todas luces.
‘Form can’t be empty!’ Right. No doubt about it. Invented words are not totally empty, however. They have their function for their content.
Psycholinguistic research has showed (Akmajian et al, 1986) that kids can do excellent with invented words. Time and again, they coin words and play with their grammar forms. Invented words help focus on how words work.
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Grammar – why think about space?
‘No, no, no, no!’ another might shout. ‘Not the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare! Four prepositions? Ridiculous! Language is an art, metaphor, and abstract ideation!’
Students may yet choose to follow the eagle.
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I am Arakanese.
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