LING 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Generative Grammar, Middle Ages, Mathematical Logic
9 Sep 2016
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Chomsky"s innate endowment theory: main theory of linguistic/grammatical competence. Human beings have a specific capacity rooted to learn language. Brought in a way of framing things in linguistics. Grammatical competence: more or less what traditional grammar seeks to characterize. Linguistic competence is whatever we need to do in order to use language. We need to know how to integrate our linguistic knowledge of the grammar with our knowledge of the situation. The hearer must understand the situation that is occurring. E. g. , knowing that if you use the pronoun i", you are referring to yourself, but if someone else uses it, they are referring to themselves. If you know grammar, you could use this properly but if you do not have linguistic competence, you may not be able to use this pronoun properly. You can"t use language unless you have memory.
