Competence
= langue
Chomsky’s idea is that most of this knowledge is innate
Performance
= discours
What does generative grammar focus on?
the competence of the speaker
le signe
référence = mon chat
signifiant = \ʃa\
signifié = l’image mentale du chat
one argument predicate vs two arguments predicate
< She – drive a car > = two arguments
< She – be clever > = one argument
agent
the one who acts
patient
the one who undergoes
Deep structure
basic grammatical relations
Surface structure
after transformations, the sentence we produce