LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Prescription, International Auxiliary Language, Williams Syndrome
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Summary: the study of language faculty as a window into human cognition. Prescriptive grammar: categorizes certain language uses as acceptable or unacceptable according to a standard form of the language. This is the grammar that ppl mean when talking about bad grammar". Descriptive grammar: has as its goal to describe what the native speakers of a lang do (verbally) when they speak their language. This is the grammar that we talk about in linguistics. Examples of prescriptive rules: don"t split infinitives, don"t use double negation, i didn"t do anything instead of i didn"t do nothing , don"t end a sentence with a preposition, don"t use who in place of whom. Prescriptive rules vary from language to language there isn"t really any fixed thing that makes the rules" but they are based on judgements about social group membership. In bev, they usually drop the word be". Its not sloppy because it follows the same" grammatical rules as standard english.
