LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture 2: LINGUIST 1AA3_Week 2

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

If a language has no written form, then it has no grammar. Grammatical : the mental grammar of your language generates this word or sentence. Un grammatical : the mental grammar of your language does not generate this word or sentence. Wearing is interesting she shoes b. Gia has yesterday some new shoes bought b. You are so not wearing those shoes to your interview a. Grammaticality judgments are data points to be observed. Most speakers of a variety agree on what"s grammatical. These observations allow us to draw conclusions about mental grammar of that particular language / dialect / variety. If you can"t teach your language to someone else then you don"t really know your language: true, false much of our grammatical knowledge is unconscious (implicit) Slang, vernacular dialects, patois, and croles are just sloppy forms of language spoken by ignorant people. True or false: true, false all grammars are equally valid in linguistic terms.