HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Noam Chomsky, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics
5 Dec 2020
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In 1820, wilhelm von humboldt observed, that language is rule-governed. In the late 19th century, the neogrammarian approach of karl burgmann, herrmann osthoff (and others at the leipzig school) introduced the notion of sound laws: sound laws are exceptionless, sound change proceeds mechanically, by analogy. In 1920 ferdinand de saussure started the program of structural linguistics". > developing sophisticated methods of synchronic grammatical analysis: concept of the linguistic sign, dual concepts of pragmatics vs. syntagmatic analysis. > many fundamental commonalities among the languages of the world. Grammar is a system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words that form grammatical sentence in any given language. The human brain is "prewired" for particular properties of grammar. > drastically limiting the number of possible human languages. Subject pronouns encode subject function (l, he, she, we, they) Object pronouns encode object function (me, him, her, us, them)
