Re: Corpora: Chomsky and corpus linguistics

From: Bruce Lambert (lambertb@uic.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 22:41:43 MET DST

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    At 02:57 PM 4/24/01 -0400, Bob Krovetz wrote:
    >At the corpus linguistics conference in Freiburg, Bas Aarts gave a
    >talk in which he mentioned a conversation he had with Chomsky. He
    >asked Chomsky "What do you think of Corpus Linguistics?". Chomsky
    >replied "It doesn't exist".

    Stated with the arrogant dismissiveness that only Chomsky can muster. I
    once heard him tell a very large audience, in response to the question:
    "What do you think of communication research?" that there was "no such
    thing." For such a brilliant guy, it's too bad he never learned to play nice.

    -bruce



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