LING 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Appalachian English, Spoonerism, Universal Grammar
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Sentences can hv multiple meanings: example: flying planes can be dangerous, to fly a plane (as an occupation or an action) can be dangerous, or: planes that are flying (overhead) can be dangerous. You can also keep add something to previously made sentences to extend/make new meaning. John bought a green car yesterday from the man in the house. In short, you can keep going on and on in a sentence to change meaning that we can still understand. Creativity = a universal property of human language: to make sentences longer and more complex. We have a system of rules that allow us to generate and understand and produce an infinite amount of sentences: some rules that are used and can be repeated = coordination, subordination, recursion of adj, etc. Rules combine sounds -> words -> sentences -> meaning. All spoken language is governed by a set of rules called a grammar.
