(countable) A book describing the grammar ( or ) of a language.
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(countable, and, uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515090602/http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse33 Learn Prolog Now!], §8.2
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(uncountable) Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
: Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars…
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