Syntax

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Noam Chomsky published a book "syntactic structures" in 1957 wherein he proposed the theory called

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Transformation grammar

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Aspects of the theory of syntax was published by Chomsky in

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1965

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Chomsky make a distinction between

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Competence and performance

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An ideal speaker-hearer's intrinsic knowledge of his language in a homogeneous speech community is

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the competence

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The actual use of the language in concrete situations is

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performance

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The native speaker's linguistic competence enables him:

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* to recognise whether a particular sequence of sounds is an utterance
* to distinguish a grammatical sentence from an ungrammatical one
* to recognise whether a sentence is ambiguous or not.
* to identify the underlying grammatical relations in sentences.
* to recognise sentences that are paraphrases of each other.

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Kinds of linguistic competence are two types

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1) grammatical competence
2) pragmatic competence

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Grammatical competence subsumes three primary types of linguistic ability

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syntactic, semantic, and phonological.

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Pragmatics is concerned with the role played by non-linguistic information such as:

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background knowledge and personal beliefs. Ex. today was a disaster
To under this sentence the background information is necessary.