A key intellectual advance in 20th-century linguistics lay in the realization that a typical human language allows the construction not just of a very large number of distinct utterances but actually of infinitely many distinct utterances. However, although languages came to be seen as non-finite systems in that respect, they were seen as bounded systems: any particular sequence of words, it was and is supposed, either is wellformed or is not, though infinitely many distinct sequences are each wellformed. I believe that the concept of “ungrammatical” or “ill-formed” word-sequences is a delusion, based on a false conception of the kind of thing a human language is
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of ...
Language is boundless. Most explicitly, it is the means by which human beings communicate their t...
Inaugural lecture--Department of Afrikaans, Rand Afrikaans University, 7 October 1969Twentieth centu...
An essential property of human language that distinguishes it from other information-carrying system...
Notions like ‘biolinguistics’ have a trivial and a non-trivial interpretation. According to the triv...
The received Chomskian view is that a grammar is about the language faculty. In contrast to this “ps...
The realization that speech is a complex system is a new and fundamental fact about language. It is ...
This paper will attempt to debunk the idea that human language grammar as part of the Faculty of Lan...
Grammaticalization, i.e. the change by which lexical categories become functional categories, is ove...
Grammar is more than just order and hierarchy; it is a way of expressing complex multidimensional sc...
This paper discusses the widely held idea that the building blocks of languages (features, categorie...
In the broadest sense of the term, structuralism in linguistics is the idea that what is to be studi...
We examine the question of which aspects of language are uniquely human and uniquely linguistic in l...
For many linguistic theories, a grammar is a mechanism making it possible to define a natural langua...
Contains a discussion about the origins of language. The author maintains that none of the theories ...
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of ...
Language is boundless. Most explicitly, it is the means by which human beings communicate their t...
Inaugural lecture--Department of Afrikaans, Rand Afrikaans University, 7 October 1969Twentieth centu...
An essential property of human language that distinguishes it from other information-carrying system...
Notions like ‘biolinguistics’ have a trivial and a non-trivial interpretation. According to the triv...
The received Chomskian view is that a grammar is about the language faculty. In contrast to this “ps...
The realization that speech is a complex system is a new and fundamental fact about language. It is ...
This paper will attempt to debunk the idea that human language grammar as part of the Faculty of Lan...
Grammaticalization, i.e. the change by which lexical categories become functional categories, is ove...
Grammar is more than just order and hierarchy; it is a way of expressing complex multidimensional sc...
This paper discusses the widely held idea that the building blocks of languages (features, categorie...
In the broadest sense of the term, structuralism in linguistics is the idea that what is to be studi...
We examine the question of which aspects of language are uniquely human and uniquely linguistic in l...
For many linguistic theories, a grammar is a mechanism making it possible to define a natural langua...
Contains a discussion about the origins of language. The author maintains that none of the theories ...
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of ...
Language is boundless. Most explicitly, it is the means by which human beings communicate their t...
Inaugural lecture--Department of Afrikaans, Rand Afrikaans University, 7 October 1969Twentieth centu...