Chomsky has to be negatif about corpora because
they represent a linguistic paradigma which is
the inverse of the chomskyan paradigma.
Chomsky liberated linguistics from behaviourism
but degenerated in metaphysics e.g. his move-theories:
every practical sentence should be formed by
changing an ideal sentence. Judging malformed
sentences from children or not-educated people
(and understood by everyone) as being skrewed
is beyond linguistics. May the disciples of
Chomsky change their views. The cognitive functioning of
language is too complicated to fit in Chomsky's
metaphysics.
Otto Lassen
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