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Fading art in schools, perhaps, but still done plenty in the field of linguistics :)
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
Fading art in schools, perhaps, but still done plenty in the field of linguistics :)
- NoGravitas 11y agoThe kind of sentence diagramming done in schools really looks nothing like the syntax trees used in formal linguistics, though. It's about 100 years obsolete, for one thing. The Language Log article another commentator posted gets at that. Also the Wikipedia article on [Parse Trees][0] is a good intro. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThat Wikipedia article is about the linguistic kind. I assume the stuff in schools is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram ? These are... weird.