[lbo-talk] munchers

[Sandy Harris]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Michael Smith<mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:19:54 -0400
> shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
>> As Kenneally points out, Chomsky ...  didn't think linguistic fieldwork
>> mattered to his claims. He poo'd poo'd anyone who bothered. He has since
>> changed his mind on that from what I gather.
>
> One would like to see specific references for these three (3)
> claims.

Applied Linguistics and language teaching were certainly outside
Chomsky's main area of concern. As a language teacher, I'd
say generative grammar is mostly useless to me. Discourse
studies are useful, and Halliday's systemic grammar is more
influential, or at least more fashionable, than Chomsky.

There's a story that when Chomsky was asked the best way
to learn a language, he replied "Sleep with one." Can anyone
verify that one? Ilike it, but I'm not sure I believe it.

-- 
Sandy Harris,
Quanzhou, Fujian, China