LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intransitive Verb, Impossible Object, Innateness Hypothesis
16 Sep 2016
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Language is made up of sounds, words and sentences. New words and sentences are made up all the time: creativity of language. Language (verbal) is a form of communication, as is gesture (nonverbal) Creativity is always subject to the constraints of language- this is true for all human languages and dialects. Constraints on how sounds are organized for a particular language. **** violation of a constraint of sentence structure. This is a constraint on question formation that we see across languages. Point of modern theoretical linguistics: discover the g rammar of constraints of the world"s languages. Computational theory of mind: perception, memory, reasoning, language, motor control. Studied in the lab in terms of computations such as: rules, strings, lists, files, arrays, loops, propositions. Mary and me/i went to the store. Rule: use who/i (nominative case) in subject position; whom/me (accusative case) in object position.
