Talk:Rewrite rule

Latest comment: 9 years ago by W. P. Uzer in topic Separate article?

no knowledge required?? edit

"Teach yourself linguistics" says that rewrite rules are perfectly explicit and require no knowledge at all of the language in which the phrase/sentence/whatever you're rewriting is in . However, wouldn't you need to be able to identify nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases etc. in that language? This would require quite a lot of knowledge - for example, a monolingual speaker of an unrelated language would have no way of knowing that "tent" is a noun and "went" is the preterite tense form of a verb. --Grammatical error 20:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Separate article? edit

Does this article need to be separate from Phrase structure rule? W. P. Uzer (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2015 (UTC)Reply