Descriptive linguistics

Usage examples of grammars.

Earthling authorities like Childe, Schrader, and Renfrew had carefully rebuilt ancestral languages and many of those grammars were more primly structured, better at error-correction, than the "bastard" jargons that followed.

Primitive people need rigid grammars, because they lack writing or other means to correct error and linguistic drift.

Cultures with stronger grammars could hang together over greater distances and times.

Earthling authorities like Childe, Schrader, and Renfrew had carefully rebuilt ancestral languages and many of those grammars were more primly structured, better at error-correction, than the “bastard” jargons that followed.

I was alone, except for servants and villagers, and the only books I had were Portuguese and Latin - some grammars and religious books, and a Bible.

He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world.

But even the snatches that there are required, if they were to have a meaning, two organized phonologies and grammars and a large number of words.