> >> 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.
Well, to be sure. But that's not quite the same thing.
> As a language teacher, I'd
> say generative grammar is mostly useless to me.
As is the Fourier transform, one imagines. Which says nothing uncomplimentary about language teaching or the Fourier transform.
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