LING 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Prescription, Concatenation, Noam Chomsky
30 Aug 2017
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John"s sandwich ate molly. (should have the same meaning?) Objection: (the + (cat + (ate + (molly"s + sandwich))) Greater connection between verb and object than verb and subject. Language with 2 sentences: the man comes and the men come. 1957 - chomsky argued that regular grammars are insufficient. They are the wrong way to think about human language. A sentence of english is not a string of words chained together according to the. This predicts that the nonsense sentences should be impossible. If either the girl eats ice cream or the girl eats candy, then the boy eats hot dogs. Either if the girl eats ice cream, then the boy eats ice cream or if the girl eats candy, then. The boy who said he saw the dogs is arriving today. *the boy who said he saw the dogs are arriving today. I think that john likes rice. (still svo)
