An American linguist who founded the field of Generative Linguistics.
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What does Chomsky mean by "let the rules run freely"?
In this YouTube video:
World Science Festival, “Mind Your Language: Thought, Metaphor and Imagination”. (September 30th 2021.)
The link is directly to the timestamp of the video where he says the following quote:
We use [language] for…
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Why would French fit science, and English fit literature?
I happened upon this on r/asklinguistics that, being 9 months old, has time-barred comments. I've a shade rectified some mistakes and rewritten it.
Noam Chomsky, in some interview, said that scholars in the 19th or even 18th century decided that…
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