[Corpora-List] Chomsky

[Ronald J. Craig]

>  I'm looking for the exact bibliographical reference where we can find
>  Chomsky's idea that a corpus presents a language that is defective or
>  corrupted.

I don't have Aspects at hand (I think maybe I burned it?), but I did
find a quotation on the Web:  "much of the actual speech observed
consists of fragments and deviant expressions" (Chomsky 1965: 201).
Defective or corrupted, fragmentary and deviant...sounds close enough
to me.

Unless your aim is specifically a historical footnote, why not use
the following from the interview Boyd Davis referred to?

"Chomsky: Corpus linguistics doesn't mean anything." (p. 97)


Then again, why bother giving this man yet another citation?


Ron Craig


(BTW, in addition to Schuetze, don't forget Sampson (2002) "Empirical
Linguistics".)