Talk:Grammaticality

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One doesn't have to believe in intuition being the only source of grammaticality judgement to be a generativist; there are certainly generativists who are very empirically inclined. --Kiwibird (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

You're probably right. Carson Schütze whose well-known book I'm just reading would be one of them. But when I found the article, I turned the view originally expressed as a tenet of linguistics in general to a generative conception. Just feel free to get the right literature and make the statement more precise yet again. This way, it can only get more appropriate. But when doing so, please be aware of one thing: “grammaticality is a matter of linguistic intuition” doesn’t entail that this intuition can be accessed by native speakers in order to make acceptability judgements. (cp. Schütze (1996): The empirical base of linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Page 24) Nativism is not that unsophisticated. G Purevdorj 00:02, 16 May 2008 (UTC)