Re: [Corpora-List] Chomsky

From: Ronald J. Craig (rjcraig@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 19:16:01 MET DST

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    > I'm looking for the exact bibliographical reference where we can find
    > Chomsky's idea that a corpus presents a language that is defective or
    > corrupted.

    I don't have Aspects at hand (I think maybe I burned it?), but I did
    find a quotation on the Web: "much of the actual speech observed
    consists of fragments and deviant expressions" (Chomsky 1965: 201).
    Defective or corrupted, fragmentary and deviant...sounds close enough
    to me.

    Unless your aim is specifically a historical footnote, why not use
    the following from the interview Boyd Davis referred to?

    "Chomsky: Corpus linguistics doesn't mean anything." (p. 97)

    Then again, why bother giving this man yet another citation?

    Ron Craig

    (BTW, in addition to Schuetze, don't forget Sampson (2002) "Empirical
    Linguistics".)

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