Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kuno said of the case yesterday: "I don't thinkit's appropriate for me to say anything about it."The expert in Japanese syntax said that the matterwas "private...
Other useful attachments are grammatical checkers and outlining programs. Grammatical checkers can discover some incorrect syntax, although they are far from perfect. Outlining programs allow authors to develop outlines for essays and to then modify an essay's structure by experimenting with various alternative outlines (again, look for an upcoming Hacker column on this...
...that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting, and his desire to find a refined hedonistic syntax for it, winds back beyond Greenberg to the fact that he spent his time as a student in Washington looking at the Bonnards in the Phillips Collection rather than the Picassos at the Museum of Modern...
FEMINISM IS TAUGHT in a few classes at Harvard, in which students read French theorists like Helene Cixous and Luce lrigaray and discuss such issues as androgyny, female-female bonding, and patriarchally defined syntax. But when I took an informal poll in a room full of guys the other day--"What do you think of when you hear the word `feminist'?"--the first response was, "Holly Near aiming a pair of pruning shears at my crotch...
More puzzling and complicated than language is the American social syntax. The first impression is one of dazzling and rather unsettling informality, an indiscriminate camaraderie. But one learns that going to the opera in shirt- sleeves (an outrage, surely!) does not mean contempt for culture or even necessarily a lack of rules. Calling the boss by his first name, which takes some effort, does not mean that he and the office boy are equals. Indeed, equality is both the great illusion and the great reality of America. The immigrant is slow to understand that below the egalitarian surface there...