Jotting down the ideas from Chomsky: Three levels of adequacy. Three levels of adequacy Observationally adequacy A grammar reaches observationally adequacy if it forms rules and principles to distinguish those strings of words which are sentences of the l ...
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/cadre_en.asp Developed through a process of scientific research and wide consultation, this document provides a practical tool for setting clear s ...
Douglas Biber (1988,1995)discuss a multidimensional approach to register variation. The question is: How to search those linguistic features using different software? Here enclosed the search algorithms designed by the authors of "Corpus-based language studies: an advan ...
Douglas Biber (1988) quotes Akinnaso (1982) to explain the non-quantitative approaches to spoken and written languages (Biber 1988:51). Akinnaso claims that quantitative studies have not addressed the important issues relating to speech and writing, and that they are perhaps unable to do so. Thus, ...