By Amorey Gethin
A examine of ways language and idea relate to one another within the context of a critique of linguistics. It argues that individuals research the meanings of items of language by way of watching how these items are utilized in existence.
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Here is another example. In a review of Smith and Wilson's Modern linguistics Anthony Burgess (1979) admired the advance he considers we have made from the < previous page page_33 next page > < previous page page_34 next page > Page 34 old method of merely listing pairs of words like "télegraph - telegráphic, téescope - telescópic, atom - atómic" and showing the shift in stress, to what he calls explaining it by saying that "stress in the adjective is regularly attracted towards the syllable immediately preceding the adjective-forming suffix ic".
Because it has two different meanings. Why does it have two different meanings? Nobody knows. Or, according to the transformationalists, why is the "-ing" form sometimes ambiguous? ) are transformed into it. Why are two different meanings transformed into it? Nobody knows. (It won't do to claim that some universal grammar makes such transformations unavoidable, since it obviously doesn't. ) If it is protested that I have failed to understand that the term 'account for' is used here to refer to Chomsky's discovery of the process -transformational grammar - by which ambiguities, among other things, arise, I must answer that that is a false claim.
If it is objected that such a treatment misses the obvious generalization that transitive verbs typically passivize, this fact can be easily incorporated into the grammar by stating once for all in the lexicon that any verb which can occur in a structure of the form 18 will also be able to occur in a structure of the form 19, unless it is explicitly marked as being unable to. g. open, unmarked, and only the exceptions, such as cost, marked in the lexicon. " I am not saying that such entries in a dictionary for students of English as a foreign language would necessarily be useless.
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