Sentence examples for principles of grammar from inspiring English sources

Everett began to question the first principle of Chomskyan linguistics: that infants could not learn language if the principles of grammar had not been pre-installed in the brain.

According to Chomsky, humans are born with the principles of grammar hard-wired in their brains, enabling them, from an early age and without formal instruction, to construct an infinite variety of sentences from a finite number of words.

Bella, for her part, has a cuddly, irascible husband, Massimo (John Seitz), who has mastered most of the swear words in the English language but who still (and somewhat mysteriously, after more than 30 years in the United States) can't grasp the basic principles of grammar.

Other works include Grundzüge der syrjanischen Grammatik (1841; "Principles of Zyryan Grammar") and an edition, with translation, glossary, and grammar (1843 46), of the 4th-century Gothic Bible of Bishop Ulfilas.

Cognitive linguists break with advocates of Chomskian generative grammar, denying that the terms on which words intelligibly combine are set by brute hard-wired principles of universal grammar embodied in a special purpose language module.

They have established the principles of a grammar of fun.

His De causis linguae latinae (1540; "On the Subject of the Latin Language") was an interesting early attempt to discuss the principles of Latin grammar.

The paper begins with a brief discussion of the fundamental principles of Construction Grammar, which constitutes the theoretical basis of any constructicon development project.

Armed with examples from pop culture and from the literary canon, Pinker tries to shoot down some basic principles of English grammar (such as the distinction between "who" and "whom"), some looser stylistic preferences (such as the recommendation against splitting infinitives), and some wholly permissible things widely rumored to be wrong (such as beginning sentences with "but" or "and").

Claims for universal underpinnings of language acquisition are discussed, including Chomskyan-based nativist claims for formal principles of Universal Grammar (UG) on the one hand, and psychologically motivated claims for extralinguistic perceptual and cognitive constraints shared by children acquiring different languages, on the other.

Noticing the complexity of human language skills, and the striking grammatical similarities that underpinned them, Chomsky proposed that the organising principle of language - grammar - was not learned so much as encoded: humans were born, as it were, with a grammar gene.