We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined
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Noam Chomsky quotes
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The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. Thi
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We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (th
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The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone u
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The ge
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UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this
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