Grammar vs. Taxonomy — What's the Difference?

In linguistics, the grammar (from Ancient Greek γραμματική grammatikḗ) of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.

The classification and naming of organisms in an ordered system that is intended to indicate natural relationships, especially evolutionary relationships.

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.

The science, laws, or principles of classification.

The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

An ordered arrangement of groups or categories

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

The basic principles of an area of knowledge

A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

A book dealing with such principles.

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.

Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).

A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.

(computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.

Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.

(computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language

The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.

A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.

(UK) A grammar school.

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use and application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.

A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.

Treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units