What is “Grammar”? (Series)

「grammar」是甚麼? (系列)

Everyone is familiar with the term “grammar,” but in its everyday usage, its definition and scope are often loose and inconsistent—and not very helpful to us if we want to learn a foreign language with as much clarity and precision as possible.

If we want to use a basic understanding of the science of language to inform our foreign language learning, we must start by clarifying what “grammar” really is.

Part 1:

What is “grammar,” really?

Part 2:

Every language is bound by a set of systematic rules

Part 3:

“REal exceptions” do not exist

Part 4:

An analogy to systematic grammar: gravity

part 5:

Reframing “exceptions” in grammar

「grammar」（文法）一詞，每個人都耳熟能詳；但在日常的使用上，大眾對它的定義和範疇卻散亂不一。對我們要清晰準確地學好外語而言，這絕對是百害而無一利。

如果我們想要運用對語言科學的基本理解來幫助自己學習外語，就必須先釐清「grammar」真正是甚麼。

第一篇：

其實，到底「grammar」是甚麼 ?

第二篇：

每種語言都有一套規範著它的系統性規則

第三篇：

文法並沒有「真正的例外」

第四篇：

文法「系統性」的一個比喻： 地心吸力

第五篇：

重新理解文法中的「例外」