Chomskyan linguistics

Henk van Riemsdijk
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Linguistics can be conceived as the science that attempts to answer three major questions (see Chomsky 1986a: 3): (1) What constitutes knowledge of language? (2) How is knowledge of language acquired? (3) How is knowledge of language put to use?

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