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If you have learned some languages, you will want to ask a question like this: what can I do to express something in this language. | If you have learned some languages, you will want to ask a question like this: what can I do to express something in this language. | ||
Different languages have different answers. | Different languages have different answers. If we treat a language as a system, then we can study it as studying a system. | ||
A grammatical rule is like a function in a programming language: give it some input, and get the output. The natural languages do it in various ways. For example, given the time, person, gender, number, etc., the output may be same or different in different languages. | |||
This book (as is how it is called in Wikibook) is far from being completed. | This book (as is how it is called in Wikibook) is far from being completed. | ||
Revision as of 21:38, 5 January 2023
If you have learned some languages, you will want to ask a question like this: what can I do to express something in this language.
Different languages have different answers. If we treat a language as a system, then we can study it as studying a system.
A grammatical rule is like a function in a programming language: give it some input, and get the output. The natural languages do it in various ways. For example, given the time, person, gender, number, etc., the output may be same or different in different languages.
This book (as is how it is called in Wikibook) is far from being completed.