| Lemma | generative linguistics |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Lakoff (1987) |
| Titolo | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things |
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| Citazioni | In virtually every respect, generative linguistics rests on the classical theory of categorization as it has been interpreted in the Fregean tradition-the assumption that the humanly relevant notion of a category can be adequately represented via a set-theoretical version of an objectivist theory of categories. Generative linguistics (in the Chomskyan tradition) takes for granted that there is an autonomous language faculty that makes no use at all of general cognitive capacities. [...]. It is an assumption that is necessary in order to maintain the basic metaphor on which generative linguistics is based, namely, A GRAMMAR IS A FORMAL SYSTEM. A formal system is a collection of rewriting rules that can mimic an algorithmic computation. |