Normal use of language is not an exercise of any habit or skill, it is creative. (Putman)
What is Chomsky's view on language?
100
A founding member of the Linguistic Society of America, who viewed language scientifically instead of philosophically ("Leonard").
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
100
"The initial, innate state of the human faculty of language... is characterized as a finite set of general principles complemented by a finite set of variable options, called parameters" (Surányi).
What is the Principles and Parameters theory?
100
The theory of languages and the expressions they generate (Chomsky 153).
What is Universal Grammar (UG)?
200
The University of Pennsylvania.
From where did Noam Chomsky study and receive his Ph.D.?
200
A hypothetical brain mechanism that explains human acquisition of the syntactic structure of language. (Namy)
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
200
Actual spoke sentences or words that can be broken down by conventional methods of syntactic analysis (Rowe and Levine 137).
What is Surface Structure?
200
In the 1980s
When did Chomsky introduced the theory of Principles and Parameters?
200
Chomsky further modified his concepts with the formulation of the minimalist program (Rowe and Levine 138).
What happened in 1995?
300
Linguistics, philosophy, and social/political theory.
What are the fields in which Noam Chomsky has received international acclaim?
300
A set of rules that indicates the structure and interpretation of sentences which native speakers of a language accept as belonging to the language (Nordquist, "Generative").
What is Generative Grammar?
300
"A rigid set of learned rules is used to form grammatical utterances" (Rowe and Levine 138).
What is the Mechanistic Approach?
300
"What exactly do you know, when you know your native language? And how did you come to know it?" (Snyder).
What are the two foundational questions of modern linguistics that originated the framework for Principles and Parameters?
300
This approach "maintains the concept that there is one single grammatical system for all languages, but...eliminates the concepts of deep and surface structure as well as other features of earlier conceptualizations of syntax" (Rowe and Levine 138).
What is the minimalist approach?
400
In 1955
When did Noam Chomsky receive his Ph.D. in linguistics?
400
The theory of grammar that accounts for the constructions of a language by linguistic transformations and phrase structures (Nordquist, "Transformational").
What is Transformational grammar?
400
An emphasis on the subconscious knowledge of the native speakers of a language and their language productivity (Rowe and Levine 138).
What is the Mentalist Approach?
400
Howard Lasnik
Whom else can be said to have "largely formulated" the Principles and Parameters theory with Chomsky ("Principles")?
400
Articulatory-perceptual and Conceptual-intentional (Chomsky 154).
What are two general types of performance systems?
500
Syntactic Structures (1957) and Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965)
What are the two seminal books on linguistic theory written by Noam Chomsky?
500
A highly abstract level of language structure that represents the basic meaning of a sentence that occurs only in the human mind (Smith).
What is Deep Structure?
500
"...Definitions used in grammar should be based on the forms of the language, not on the meanings of the forms; and that a given language at a given time is a complete system of sounds and forms that exist independently of the past..." ("Bloomfield").
What are some of the principles noted by Bloomfield?
500
This term "refer to the same school in the generative tradition of phrase structure grammars, as opposed to dependency grammars" ("Principles").
What is Government and Binding?
500
Two linguistic levels that respectively provide the instructions for the articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional systems (Chomsky 154).