Reddit reviews Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition

You're making a lot of faulty assumptions about what I have (or would have) learned in school, and I don't think it's helping at all.

Also, I don't need someone to explain to me the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. I'm trying to get describe your class and the difficulties you're having, so I can make a helpful recommendation.

> is there a grammarian who has his own definition of what a determiner is

Certainly, those working on l syntax can have different interpretations of the syntactic categories in a language, c.f. whether pronouns are a type of determiner. It can also depend on the perspective; a pedogogical grammar might call words like my "possessive adjectives" rather than "possessive determiners". How you're expected to identify determiners might vary by class - e.g. whether you're supposed to know certain tests, or memorize a list. Whether you're expected to be able to identify determiners in languages other than English also matters.

You asked for textbooks on "descriptive grammar" and all I've been trying to do is to get more specific out of you so I can decide if you want something like The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language or something like the syntax chapter of Language Files. If your response is to assume that I'm asking you questions because I'm confused about fundamental concepts in linguistics, then I can't really help you.

The Language Files is a fairly standard beginning linguistics textbook. I used it when I taught an introduction to linguistics course. Of course, it might be too much of a textbook for you.


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i have this book
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814252702/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
if that what u looking for talk to me