Linguistics Lecture Essay

Todays Objective Begin to chthonicstand the fundamental ship canal of thinking in Linguistics. many properties of grammar creativity generality parity Some properties of grammar Parity ? all grammars are equally valid prescriptive grammar descriptive grammar ? ? Is this statement a scienti? c contemplation? A. Yes B. No People who raging in East Hamilton often say I seen him where they should say I saw him Clicker oftenness is BD.Is this statement a scienti?c observation? A. Yes B. No In Finnish, prepositions come after nouns. Kissa on poydan alla cat is table under The cat is under the table Is this statement a scienti? c observation? A. Yes B. No If you end a sentence with a preposition you sound ignorant. Gymboree is oneness of the stores that I shop at. Gymboree is one of the stores at which I shop. Clicker frequency is BD. Clicker frequency is BD. Some properties of grammar Universality ? ? ? ?all grammars share some universal properties phonological syntactic etc. So me properties of grammar Mutability ? ? ? ? all grammars change oer time sounds words & word forms sentence structures w not hw in Canada by age Some properties of grammar Inaccessibility ? almost all grammatical experience is unconscious (a. k. a. implicit) How can we observe unconscious knowledge? Some properties of grammar ? ? ? ? ? ? creativity generality parity universality mutability inaccessibility.