Linguistics Lecture 2: Generative Linguistics Overview

Linguists prefer prescription over description when studying language.

The concern of linguists is primarily focused on the practical application of knowledge rather than knowledge itself.

English has over a billion first-language speakers around the world.

The role of French in international languages has increased significantly in recent years.

Learning German and Russian has become essential for scientific study due to their international importance.

Generative Linguistics was introduced by Steven Johnson in the 1950s.

Sociolinguistics focuses on the relation between language and society.

Functional Linguistics disregards the purpose of language in communication.

Corpus Linguistics relies solely on intuition to gather information about word frequencies and combinations.

Applied Linguistics aims to detach language from the experience of its use.

The primary concern of Generative Linguistics is how people actually use language in everyday life.