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Grammar without Grammaticality

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:40 authored by Geoffrey Sampson
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.

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  • Published

Journal

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

ISSN

1613-7027

Publisher

De Gruyter

Issue

1-2

Volume

3

Page range

1-32, 111

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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