SYN104 - Generative Grammar

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[@oer-vlc]

Thanks to "our" Spanish translator Aurora G. from Lima in Peru, this E-Lecture now has optional Spanish subtitles.

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[@gabo6713]

It is so far the clearest explanation of generative grammar I have seen

[@hungsyuntsu220]

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[@govindagovindaji4662]

I'm elderly. I've looked up the word linguistics in the dictionary many times in my life. I hear it used often in science subjects and of course there is the popularity and personality figure of Noam Chomsky and others. But what did left wing politics have to do with language~!? So many questions. Why is it important~? And lately, what in the world does it have to do with AI~? I've honestly never understood it except to reason only that "it's the study of language" (and then wonder why it isn't termed "languaegology"?) THIS lecture brings to me an epiphany. I've learned more in these 11:22 minutes than in all my life about this subject. I am so happy right now. Thank you,

[@DannKe00]

even a 90 min lecture couldn't make clear what you explained perfectly in 12 minutes, amazing

[@gristly_knuckle]

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[@Lycidas3232]

great video! thanks a lot - your clear and well structured manner of speech helped me a lot to understand the concept.

[@jesicarodriguez9836]

after many videos and books, I´ve finally understood generative grammar.

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[@maximilianogonzalez3991]

Hello! I really enjoyed the way you have explained this theory. What is more, your pronunciation is very clear ( I am from Argentina) and I did not have any kind of problems in understanding this video. Thank you so much for this. Regards!

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[@datlavisala6725]

Thank you now I have a glimpse of it It's interesting!

[@mebeasensei]

I understand and create ill-formed sentences everyday as an English speaker living in Japan. Most, if not all the marked natural sentences my students create can be classified on a continuum of well-formed to illformed and contain atypical and typical form-meaning segments. But they all interpretable and reforming them into 'well-formed sentences' is no easy task. Attempt variations abound. Variations between native speakers abound. These are real problems for Generative Grammar and explain to me why Construction Grammar is so much more appealing these days. I can't say whether Construction Grammar can answer these questions either...but I suspect language is like a gas, not a solid matter, and defies the kinds of mechanical explanations Chomsky and his followers insist is a realistic possibility. We really only have a vague sense or intuition about the familiarity of typical vs atypical segments of language as far as sentences are concerned..and as for lone words, we may have never heard of them, or forgotten them, their meanings etc.

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[@GeorgWilde]

I would say that number of hypothetical sentences is infinite. But number of actual sentences (or even usable sentences) is finite (suntactically). Why? Length of the word will actually never go beyond certain bound. Length of sentence is actually limited (by time and comprehension abilities). Also number of actual words in the language is limited because even though new words are constantly created, some words are forgotten, human brains are limited. Duration of existence of humanity is probably limited too. But if we are not looking at just the syntax/grammar, but also the association between the word and concept it points to, then we get sort of fuzzyness in the sense that the concept can be little bit different in everyones mind. So those would be infinite and uncountable.

[@Norafifah1590]

This presentation is very interesting. I am gonna present in a seminar. We get to choose a topic and I have chosen syntactic acquisition from nativist point of view. Do you happen to have videos related to my topic?

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[@alfacarreno7949]

Love the explanation , thank you very much

[@mr.h3737]

Beautiful. Yet, as a speaker of Arabic I can’t see what’s new about this module in comparison to what Sibawayh has already established (ca. 750 ad) even this categorization of grammatically correct but semantically odd is mentioned among four categories of speech in his book. Could someone explain what’s new about Chomsky’s theory?

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really ammazing !! thank u sooo much , now i can understand what does generative grammar mean :)

[@norahzehra8202]

Thank u so much for such an excellent topic ..excellent just because by ur way of delivering ..but I want to know do i have to explain the whole ps component and lexicon in gg ..as I m preparing for my examination

[@marumakoto]

Very clear! Thank you!

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[@XSanaryaX]

Could you please answer me about the question what is the relationship between between surface / deep structure from one hand and transformational grammar of the other hand?

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Awesome!!!

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Great teacher

[@ATAXIA424]

does universal grammar as well as what was discussed here apply to all languages? even Chinese?

[@fiegenfiegen]

Thank you very much indeed for the lesson!

[@mraccident]

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[@Proxyy7]

Oh my god, all this time I thought the question marks denoted questionable grammaticality. I'm so glad I got bored and watched this, I just wish I could have seen this when I was taking my intro syntax course.

[@oer-vlc]

I don't think that Proxyy7 was wrong over the years. So please do not throw yourself into the next river! The question mark CAN be used for questionable grammaticality, for example, if native speakers are in doubt about the acceptance of a particular construction (see Quirk/Svartvik: Investigating linguistic acceptability). But is also often used if sentences are conceptually strange but grammatically correct, like Chomsk'y famous "? Flying planes can be dangerous." So we are both right.

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Amazing!

[@dianagustine232]

I'm dian I'm going to present this topic as my task in linguistic, I do really want to read books, but, could you give a very simple explanation about what is syntax-generative grammar. Thank you

[@Scott-i9v2s]

www.youtube.com/@oer-vlc OK, this was posted 12 years ago. What I miss here is any mention of what underpins the whole concept of "the main architecture of generative grammar". 1 of the things that the student must learn is whether the SEQUENCE OF WORDS in a sentence is significant. Any child learning a language shows that any SPECIFIC word-SEQUENCE is NOT an INNATE trait of language. The child clearly shows that it must LEARN this trait. It must ESTABLISH which version is pertinent to the language that it is learning. My point is that some (fairly small) set of axiomatic rules must be definitionally determined in order to go about learning a language that is based on said set. I can see the viability of an in-built mechanism that is used for this definitional determination of the axiomatic rules UNDERPINNING the main architecture of the (possibly generative) grammar of a specific HUMAN (NOT "Natural"!) language. In short, I can see Chomsky meaning THIS kind of mechanism with "LAD" (Language Acquisition Device). Note that said TYPE of mechanism is useful in learning just-about anything. So a LAD might be a (minor) subset of said mechanism.

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[@boogies337]

Gracias por los subtítulos en español

[@fwwryh7862]

''The white board behind me.'' is imitation. The article 'the' was imitated thousands of times and the color 'white' was imitated thousands of times and so on.

[@gristly_knuckle]

That’s not what I thought it was. So is John just putting stuff in the garage. I think I should be able to attach as many things to that activity. Hehe.

[@Usagi21]

Thank you!

[@smff8846]

1:45, that elephant has been partaking in some questionable activities.

[@mariariu8175]

amazing

[@chuckbowie5833]

Generative grammar, or how to bring a discipline back 50 years into devolution.

[@mebeasensei]

...mnnn....most influential, for whom? Other generative linguists? I would suggest, Cognitive/Construction grammars that reflect usage might be more relevant these days, but I'm an English teacher and we are confined to the stoneage pedagogical terms. No one has told us otherwise.

[@LaureanoLuna]

What Chomsky seemingly failed to see is that natural language productivity goes beyond recursion, so that no algorithm can generate all expressions of a natural language such as English. In other words, natural language is indefinitely extensible: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=monist&id=monist_2013_0096_0002_0295_0308 Preprint available at philpapers.org

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John put (threw) the car. 👍

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[@goedelite]

Is there any other contemporary theory, claiming to be scientific, that receives as much attention in non-scientific media as Prof Chomsky's linguistics?

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[@graceebenezer6085]

Thank you sir but I couldn't understand lexicon.

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[@gromins]

Das sollte auf Deutsch sein. Leider verliert die deutsche Sprache immer mehr an Relevanz, weil man immer weniger Deutsch in wichtigen Kontexten spricht. Diese sehr interessante Sprache wird in einigen Jahrzehnten nur noch eine Sprache sein, die man benutzt, um mit seiner Familie zu quatschen.