[Corpora-List] Chomsky
Mark P. Line
mark at polymathix.com
Fri Oct 15 02:30:13 UTC 2004
Susana Sotillo said:
>
> Mark P. Line wrote:
>
>>I've often maintained that Chomsky's writings are merely records of
>>performance, not competence, and are therefore useless as a source of
>>information about language.
>>
> Are you referring to his writings about language or to his political
> manifestos? Just curious. :-) ;-)
I guess the assertion would have to hold for all his writings. But I guess
he's never intended his political writings to provide information about
language.
-- Mark
Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX
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