Global Language Study Lab

Noam Chomsky

2006-01-22T01:15:00.000-08:00

Chomsky is a lousy gardner; he only branches and never rakes.

Core + Bg

2006-01-13T09:08:00.000-08:00

Untitled

2006-01-11T09:34:00.000-08:00

Compression

2006-01-10T04:25:00.000-08:00

Structural understanding + vocabulary power

Translation - UNZIP?

2006-01-09T12:52:00.000-08:00

When I translate English into Korean, or vice versa, I often feel that I'm "unzipping" a file that would lie neatly compressed in its original language; sometimes I find myself so embarrassed with all the sub-files "newly" created in the orher.

Other than the contents, you have to bother to translate between the lines, say, the context as well. But just as a good poem resists to the death its reduction to a flat statement, a good translation defies paraphrasing.

NAME

2006-01-09T07:17:00.000-08:00

Sentence Making

2006-01-09T02:52:00.000-08:00

The Equation

2006-01-07T04:06:00.000-08:00

Structural Core = Lexical Core + Context = Lexical ( C + C) SC = LC/C

Quote of the Day

2006-01-05T12:45:00.000-08:00

"Because she was used to expressing herself in writing, her personality did come through in her e-mail."

Drum Beat

2006-01-04T11:02:00.000-08:00

Structure, Vocabularies, and Styles...(repeat)

Quote of the Day

2006-01-03T16:14:00.000-08:00

Language is an "inherent" art of production, learned to be "mastered".

영어에서 나타나는 한국어 동사의 활용어미와 보조용언

2006-01-03T14:28:00.000-08:00

Phrasal Verbs

2005-12-31T11:54:00.000-08:00

RB"X" Engine

2005-12-28T10:51:00.000-08:00

Direct Translation - Is it possible, practical? (to be updated)

2005-12-27T11:13:00.000-08:00

A word is given, followed by image, followed by me

2005-12-27T08:24:00.000-08:00

Or the reverse?

Quote of the day]

"I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did. Most of the plays are engendered by a line, a word or an image. The given word is often shortly followed by the image. I shall give two examples of two lines which came right out of the blue into my head, followed by an image, followed by me. "

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director. He has written for theatre, radio, television and film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

Language System Differences

2005-12-27T01:36:00.000-08:00

*** Grammar Unit includes parts of speech, their positions and functions, and forms in which they are encoded.

Foundations of Human Grammar

2005-12-26T22:37:00.000-08:00

Science Daily carried an interesting article on the origin of language, titled New Language Points To Foundations of Human Grammar. A study reported in the article sheds light on some fundamental properties of language in general and the way in which human language develops from the very beginning, which are the very concerns of GLS Language Lab. What the researchers in the study have found indeed is very supportive of, and thus very encouraging to, the research going on in our lab of language system analysis. We post some extracts here.

Language goes beyond a list of words for actions, objects, people, characteristics and so on, to establish systematic relations among those elements. ……word order is one of the first features of a language, and that it appears very early. ……the fixed word order … emerged … within a generation after the inception of the language .

Linguistic Competence (on-going scheme)

2005-12-26T16:54:00.000-08:00

Syntax Engine (updated today)

2005-12-26T00:57:00.000-08:00

***Start with the functions (more details coming)

New Grammar Book Contents

2005-12-25T10:22:00.000-08:00

*** Impending Modification

Construct of Predicates

2005-12-25T08:59:00.000-08:00

*** Don't read any sentence with all its components given the same weight.

Comprehension

2005-12-25T06:23:00.000-08:00

Sentence Structure (Syntax)

2005-12-25T04:42:00.000-08:00

Core & Background

2005-12-23T00:31:00.000-08:00

Text (or verbal) generation meeting text (or vebral) needs

Should we have a global language, then how?

2005-12-22T08:48:00.000-08:00

Globalization doesn't mean just being borderless. It also means creating a world environment where people around the globe share some common culture. It's already shaping up , however, amongst conflicts within and across the borders, various interests involved therein. To resolve them in meaningful ways, to gear human endeavors toward better schemes, communication's needed and so inevitable. But in what language should we talk? GLS Lab presents an essay on this matter, here wishing it might be...

Language Use

2005-12-22T08:44:00.000-08:00

Language (use), even though not always perfect, is the most practiced of all the arts human has ever mastered.

What matters: Language Systems do

2005-12-21T07:10:00.000-08:00

It is manifest that there’s a distinct difference between English and Hangul, the Korean language. It is the inconsistency inherent between the two language systems, not in the vocabularies and styles of expressions, that often gets in the way and interrupts the comprehension back and fro, thus invoking "translational difficulties". One way of overcoming this barrier has been, traditionally, to adjust either one of the two into the other system. By the way, GLS Lab has figured that there’s no need for this. Say, we can comprehend English without “sacrificing” the system of Hangul. This is based on our linguistic premise that all thoughts are the same in its base, even though they are expressed in different forms and styles.

Words have Three Meanings

2005-12-16T07:56:00.000-08:00

Physical
Abstract
Figurative

Or it may be the world we live in.

Few admits there's nothing like...

2005-12-16T06:50:00.000-08:00

I have rarely met a newspaper editor who admits that there's anything remotely resembling a libral bias in the journalism biz.

Misunderstanding

2005-12-16T02:58:00.000-08:00

Misunderstanding occurs when inconsistency, or mismatch, arises between "contextual" expectation, aside from contextual or background knowledge, from within and/or outside the passage, including the readers' preconceived or misconceived nothions about the given text, and "technical" interpretation, of language, of a given statement, although consistency can also lead to misunderstanding.

The gap will be narrowed as you further study the language in various contexts and gain more knowledgeable backgrounds of the matters concerned. But, depending on the level of your fluency, one will weigh in the balance more than the other.

*** Meaning, if not comprehending, of a word, phrase, or an entire passage, can be obtained from the contextual expection, or mental assessment, while the technical interpretation confirms that it's correct.

IF YOU

2005-12-15T07:38:00.000-08:00

No doubt you feel sick / if you / ate all the pizza.

Start with the predicate

2005-12-14T06:55:00.000-08:00

Start with the predicate, at the kernel of which lies the verb.
Sentence expends around the action point followed by amplification, part of whose functions the modification is.

What's currently going on in GlsLab

2005-12-12T22:53:00.000-08:00

Research going on characteristics of the English language system; a departure from the traditional "rule-based" approaches to teaching and learning the language.