LIN232H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Noam Chomsky, Generative Grammar, Preposition And Postposition
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The level that mediates between sounds that someone produces and what they intend to say. The underlying theses of generative grammar is that sentences are generated by a subconscious set of procedures. These procedures are part of our minds, and the goal of syntactic theory is to model these proceduresdd. Prescriptive rules prescribe how people should speak according to some standard. Descriptive rules describe how people actually speak, whether or not it being correctly. These rules give us more insight into how the mind uses language. An anaphor is a noun ending in -self. Anaphors must agree i gender with the noun it refers to (the antecedent) An anaphor without an antecedent is not acceptable. Must agree in gender and number with its antecedent. Nominative refers to the case form pronouns take when in subject position. Accusative refers to the form they take when in object positions (john loves me) Corpora are collections of data (either spoken or written texts)
