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To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c ...
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation ...
We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (th ...
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this ...
The core problem of human language ... I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite numb ...
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
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As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat--
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Grammar, which rules even kings ...
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexu ...
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