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Posted on December 22, 2008
But traditional public anal sex grammars did not so clearly recognize that, in spite of the physical similarity of the following two sentences, the native speaker does not feel that they are as simply related as are passive and active sentences.
To check this we need only note that It is easy to please James is an acceptable paraphrase of the first, while It is eager to please James is not a paraphrase of the second. Although the elements of which both anal in public sentences are composed belong to the same ‘parts of speech’ in the same order, the relations between these elements are evidently not the same. In the first sentence we understand that it is James who is being pleased, whereas in the second it is James who is doing the pleasing. The consequence of requiring that a grammar should accord with a native speaker’s intuitions is that we must accept a different goal for linguistic theory.
Whereas, before, we were content if a description of a big tits language accounted in an adequate fashion both explicitly and projectively for any data from that language we cared to submit for scrutiny, that is, we were concerned with describing ‘language’, now it looks as if we are describing what native speakers conceive to be the nature of their language. The emphasis has shifted from the nature of language data to the nature of the human capacity which makes it possible to produce the language data.