| Another work on this website, The Languages of Science, introduces a formal apparatus which this work applies to the grammatical and semantic structures of English. Such an introduction may not be essential to the understanding of the grammatical description, but the mathematically inclined may find it useful to better understand the motivation and details of what we have done. These tools seem to be the most essential descriptive devices from mathematics, computer science, and modern linguistics, and should be suited for describing any natural language. In fact, their conceptual basis is so elementary that they should eventually prove to have a much more general and broad application, so that the analyst should find them suitable to the requirements of any discipline ready for formalization. |