This article pretends to demonstrate that the natural order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes is not taken into account in the sequence of units in the textbooks Interchange I and Grammar Dimensions I. Thus, it ...

© 1963-2012 IEEE. Irreducible grammars are a class of context-free grammars with well-known representatives, such as Repair (with a few tweaks), Longest Match, Greedy, and Sequential. We show that a grammar-based compression ...

This article analyzes the role that has been attributed to grammar throughout the history of foreign language teaching, with special emphasis on methods and approaches of the twentieth century. In order to support our ...

As part of a round table entitled “Construction of descriptive grammars”, with authors of descriptive grammars of the Portuguese language, this text presents a personal refl ection that seeks to recover the key issues that ...

This paper aims to discuss the approach of sentences concessive on grammars and teaching books in Portuguese in order to ascertain to what extent is closer or more distant from the description of sentences concessive in ...

Comparing XML documents with XML grammars, also known as XML document and grammar validation, is useful in various applications such as: XML document classification, document transformation, grammar evolution, XML retrieval, ...

Supported by the Functional Discourse Grammar theoretical model, as proposed by Hengeveld (2005), this paper aims to show that the order of modifiers of the Representational Level in spoken Brazilian Portuguese is determined ...