Paradigm

Wednesday 16^th November 2016

Paradigm - /ˈparədʌɪm/

Noun
1a) A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model

1b)  A world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject

2) Linguistics - A set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles

3) (In the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.

Example sentences

Noun

‘Society’s paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’’

‘The discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science’

‘English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’’

‘Reformers rejected the teaching of modern languages through grammatical paradigms, specimen sentences, and word lists.’

Origin

Late 15th century: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai show side by side, from para- beside + deiknunai to show.

Thanks to: www.oxforddictionaries.com