capellan wrote:
Randall Reetz wrote:
I should clarify. Stochastic (counting and statistical) methods of
meaning
acquisition are employed often to avoid structural grammatical parsing.
Some adherents go further and posit that brains don't use grammar anyway,
why should computers?
Actually, i believe that language came first and grammatical rules were
collected later to explain and formalize the language conventions.
Only languages of recent creation have this relation inverted.
Of course.
What is rather funny is how, in the 19th century, philologists tried to
apply
Graeco-Latin grammar to non-Indo-European languages (leaving us with
some sub-Saharan Africab languages being described as having 13 genders
- which, quite obviously they don't ; they have 13 categories) leaving us
with the lasting impression that "one size fits all", stopping people being
aware of how large the differences between some languages are.
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