AIN’T GRAMMAR WORKING FOR YOU ?

Mr. William G. Banks

B.A English LinguisticsMLST Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Discourse Analysis

PhD (candidate) Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Pragmatics (05/05/2014)

WHAT IS GRAMMAR?

Prescriptive Formal and Academic

Meticulous Mechanics

Correct & Incorrect Signatures

Speeches, and academic

Descriptive Casual Informal

Creative Mechanics

Relative and Flexible

Oral and novice writing

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CERTAIN THOUGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR ONE LANGUAGE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO LIVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE…

Whorf-Sapir Theory

Can native Arab speakers understand the words?

GRAMMAR ARGUMENTS

Noam Chomsky PhD.

Structured or Uniformed

Phrasal Identification

Deep Layered

Universal

Ronald Langacker PhD.

Symbolic

Relative

Conceptualized

Ain’t no such thing as Universal Grammar

HOW D

O ARABS S

PEAK?

PRACTICAL AWARENESS VS. ACTUAL AWARENESS

مصري (al-walad miSri الولد

The boy is Egyptian.

مصر في الولد wulida l-walad fi  .ولدmiSr)

The boy was born in Egypt.

مدرسة بنتعمي . bint 3ammi mudarrisa)

Daughter my Uncle teacher.

My cousin is a teacher.

مبكرا تصحو أن الالزم min al-laazim anمنtaSHu mubakkiran)

From necessity that you wake early.

You need to wake up early

Clarity Discovery

Indifference

Sounds

Meanings

StructurePerformance

Synthesis

Commonality

Global

Local

Culture