#generative grammar

[cosmiclion]

Do you know why verbs like rain can never back up a claim?

Because they have no arguments.

[alexadelphia-official]

(In generative grammar), nodes in a tree are a type of girl

[linguisticdiscovery]

Universal Grammar couldn't evolve

We know that human beings evolved from ancestors without language. This means our language faculty must have evolved and it must therefore be capable of evolving. The innate grammar module the generativists propose is not "evolvable" and poses other problems besides, and cannot therefore be part of our language faculty. On the other hand, there probably are language instincts linked to babbling, selective hearing and the learning of words. Language is also based on a range of social instincts, but these are not language-specific.

~ Sverker Johansson, The dawn of language, p. 197

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[drlinguo]

Source

[linguisticillustrations]

A speaker initiates a request for confirmation of a proposition p with the confirmational eh on the left side of the picture (”Initiation”), which is then confirmed by another speaker in the right side of the drawing (”Reaction”).

Wiltschko, Martina. 2021. The Grammar of Interactional Language. Cambridge University Press. Page 101, Figure 5.2. Another use of confirmationals: “Confirm that you know”.

[chaberkowepole]

Chomsky (derogatory)

[linguisten]

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The major “contribution” of generative grammar to cognitive science is negative. 

How to kill in less than a dozen words.

[anthologarium]