grammatic

With the qualities of tone, tenor and structural (poetic/rhetorical/grammatic) patterning, we are dealing with fundamentally formal features of language -- not the substance of the articulation but the mode of articulation.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

How often our grammatic nerve has rebelled as we listened to school children going through the multiplication tables.

What Are We to Say? 2010

It's out there, and not just the grammatic abominations and spell czech disasters that are the usual run-of-the-mill, but high-quality stuff (www. sfsignal.com gives a list several times a week of places where professional writers and publishers have posted free work on the web).

Archive 2009-09-01 Ulysses 2009

While the use of figurative language in and of itself doubtless raises the register of an articulation just as grammatic complexity does, what matters more here is the way those notes function as notation, creating the notion, creating the import.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

We do not have an equivalent to the French Academy in English for grammatic conventions other than proper nouns.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Year of Our Lord” 2010

It's out there, and not just the grammatic abominations and spell czech disasters that are the usual run-of-the-mill, but high-quality stuff (www. sfsignal.com gives a list several times a week of places where professional writers and publishers have posted free work on the web).

The Death of the Short Story Ulysses 2009

While the use of figurative language in and of itself doubtless raises the register of an articulation just as grammatic complexity does, what matters more here is the way those notes function as notation, creating the notion, creating the import.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

With the qualities of tone, tenor and structural (poetic/rhetorical/grammatic) patterning, we are dealing with fundamentally formal features of language -- not the substance of the articulation but the mode of articulation.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

(We must, of course, ignore the decisiveness of a “no!” from kids asked if they want to play outside instead of in front of the Wii, which must be some sort of anomaly from these grammatic vacillators that are our youth.)

It’s a kind of grammatical « Motivated Grammar 2008

(We must, of course, ignore the decisiveness of a “no!” from kids asked if they want to play outside instead of in front of the Wii, which must be some sort of anomaly from these grammatic vacillators that are our youth.)

2008 January « Motivated Grammar 2008