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2. Fumblerules - Wikipedia

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   Fumblerules. A fumblerule is a rule of language or linguistic style, humorously written in such a way that it breaks this rule. [1] Fumblerules are a form of self-reference . The science editor George L. Trigg published a list of such rules in 1979. [2] The term fumblerules was coined in a list of such rules compiled by William Safire on Sunday ...

3. Head-driven phrase structure grammar - Wikipedia

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   Head-driven phrase structure grammar ( HPSG) is a highly lexicalized, constraint-based grammar [1] [2] developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag. [3] [4] It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is the immediate successor to generalized phrase structure grammar. HPSG draws from other fields such as ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

5. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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   MHRA Style Guide. Microsoft Manual of Style. MLA Handbook. The New York Times Manual. The Oxford Guide to Style/New Hart's Rules. Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) / Oxford style. Scientific Style and Format (CSE style) Turabian: A Manual for Writers. List of style guide abbreviations.

6. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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   Phrase structure rules. Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957. [ 1] They are used to break down a natural language sentence into its constituent parts, also known as syntactic ...

7. The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

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   The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...

8. Syntax (programming languages) - Wikipedia

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   In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the document represents data.

9. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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   Linguistic prescription[ a] is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language. [ 1][ 2] These rules may address such linguistic aspects as spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Sometimes informed by linguistic purism, [ 3] such normative practices often propagate the belief that some usages are ...