your videos got me through my bachelor's degree 8 years ago! i've graduated with a master's degree three years ago. now i'm rewatching these videos to brush up on basics to prepare for my application for a phd. so basically, THANK YOU so much. linguistics forever. 🥰
I keep hearing that Government/Binding Theory has been rejected. Does this mean that it's wrong in some way? Or just that it can be replaced with something more fundamental?
Though I took the syntax course for two years I couldn't get a single thing however watching your video just once I totally got it ! great job & thank you 😊
I enjoyed your video and understood the rules u explained. My question is there a good way for understanding the minimalist approach of Chomsky in a simple way? and hw can I also be professional in drawing the tree diagrams in this approach. Thank u very much
I literally laughed out loud at your description of reflexive pronouns as being needy. By the way, "Herself saw Hazel" might be perfectly acceptable in Ireland. :) I enjoy your videos immensely. While the linguistic minutiae covered in them sometimes goes (go? I think the term is plural) over my head, they always give me something new to think about. I'm afraid however, regarding linguistics, I'm more of the Piers Anthony school. Are you familiar?
Cornelius Sneed Glad you're enjoying the videos! That's true regarding the Irish "herself", but I think you'll note in that case, it's not really serving as a reflexive anymore, but kind of an emphatic personal pronoun. And while I've heard of Piers Anthony, I don't believe I've read any of his books. So what do you mean?
The Ling Space In one of Piers Anthony's typically lengthy author's notes, he related a story in which he became unpopular with his daughter's English teacher. He was asked to speak to the class, and he wound up telling them that knowing the names for the types of words they were using was no more necessary than knowing the names of the muscles they used for walking; as long as both were used properly, that was enough. I was unable to find a direct quote, unfortunately. He said it so much better.
Cornelius Sneed I think there's a degree to which this is true: knowing how to use language well and knowing how the nuts and bolts of language work are really two different things. It's entirely plausible to just focus on learning language and how to express oneself well, and not look at further linguistics. And a lot of people who are doing linguistics research could probably do more to think about how they express themselves, both in speaking and writing. But I feel like that in not learning about how language works, you just miss out on a lot of what's cool about how languages develop, what they have in common, how we can learn them so quickly, what interpretations are allowable to us and what aren't, etc. etc. There's so much to know there, and it tells us so much about the human mind and brain. Linguistics is too awesome to never think about these things, is what I'd say. And it doesn't detract from thinking about a well-turned phrase or the music of language. ^_^
The Ling Space "Linguistics is too awesome to never think about these things. . ." This is why I am subscribed to your channel, and why I enjoy your videos so much. One is never too old to learn.
plz can you help me out with my homework ! -A student with long hair of physics -himself criticised John -each other criticised them i need to explain why these sentences are ungrammatical
ENLIGHTEN ME... "Referential Noun Phrases can never be c-commanded by anything, ever." Then how about, "She is still a cancer patient."? In the beginning, there was an idea that every pronoun occurs after noun, but sentence above was the exception, however, in the end, the trilogy of principles still can not answer that...
Where English teachers and grammarians really come unstuck is with English pronouns which notoriously don't fit into the Latin usage of nominative and accusative forms causing endless pointless discussions about whether you should say "It is I" or "It is me".
your videos got me through my bachelor's degree 8 years ago! i've graduated with a master's degree three years ago. now i'm rewatching these videos to brush up on basics to prepare for my application for a phd. so basically, THANK YOU so much. linguistics forever. 🥰
i really like the stadium analogy. it helps a lot in understanding the topic!
brauneskamo Thanks! It took a long time to come up with that one, and we're glad it works. ^_^
Same here
I'm linguistics major at Concordia, this video just saved my life for tomorrow's Ling 353 exam
Glad to be able to help! Probably you're after my time there, but I hope you do well. ^_^
Thank you this really helped me for my grammar class!
Also I love that you have those 10 David Levithan books there.😍
I keep hearing that Government/Binding Theory has been rejected. Does this mean that it's wrong in some way? Or just that it can be replaced with something more fundamental?
Though I took the syntax course for two years I couldn't get a single thing however watching your video just once I totally got it ! great job & thank you 😊
Also, could you do a video on governance and how to determine binding domains? Though that's kind of what you did in this video it seems.
I enjoyed your video and understood the rules u explained. My question is there a good way for understanding the minimalist approach of Chomsky in a simple way? and hw can I also be professional in drawing the tree diagrams in this approach. Thank u very much
I literally groaned out loud at that "faultless" reference. :) These are exemplary instructional videos, and thank you for them.
it is a nice lecture. I enjoyed it a lot. But why we need binding rules over TG. Sir can you explain it.
This is really helpful! I didn't understand this when my professor taught it to me, but now I do!
+IchigoHaatsuFansub Great! Glad we could be of help. We really like hearing this kind of thing. ^_^
How does the Binding theory apply to paragraphs? huhubhu
what about strong crossover & weak crossover ?
I literally laughed out loud at your description of reflexive pronouns as being needy. By the way, "Herself saw Hazel" might be perfectly acceptable in Ireland. :)
I enjoy your videos immensely. While the linguistic minutiae covered in them sometimes goes (go? I think the term is plural) over my head, they always give me something new to think about. I'm afraid however, regarding linguistics, I'm more of the Piers Anthony school. Are you familiar?
Cornelius Sneed Glad you're enjoying the videos! That's true regarding the Irish "herself", but I think you'll note in that case, it's not really serving as a reflexive anymore, but kind of an emphatic personal pronoun. And while I've heard of Piers Anthony, I don't believe I've read any of his books. So what do you mean?
The Ling Space In one of Piers Anthony's typically lengthy author's notes, he related a story in which he became unpopular with his daughter's English teacher. He was asked to speak to the class, and he wound up telling them that knowing the names for the types of words they were using was no more necessary than knowing the names of the muscles they used for walking; as long as both were used properly, that was enough.
I was unable to find a direct quote, unfortunately. He said it so much better.
Cornelius Sneed I think there's a degree to which this is true: knowing how to use language well and knowing how the nuts and bolts of language work are really two different things. It's entirely plausible to just focus on learning language and how to express oneself well, and not look at further linguistics. And a lot of people who are doing linguistics research could probably do more to think about how they express themselves, both in speaking and writing. But I feel like that in not learning about how language works, you just miss out on a lot of what's cool about how languages develop, what they have in common, how we can learn them so quickly, what interpretations are allowable to us and what aren't, etc. etc. There's so much to know there, and it tells us so much about the human mind and brain. Linguistics is too awesome to never think about these things, is what I'd say. And it doesn't detract from thinking about a well-turned phrase or the music of language. ^_^
The Ling Space "Linguistics is too awesome to never think about these things. . ." This is why I am subscribed to your channel, and why I enjoy your videos so much. One is never too old to learn.
Cornelius Sneed Thanks. We're glad to have you. ^_^
You did a great job by explaining this theory. Thank you so much.
Great! Glad to be able to help out. ^_^
i love it thnx, am writing my linguistics paper tomorrow
+Joy Thusi Great! Glad to be able to help. ^_^
plz can you help me out with my homework !
-A student with long hair of physics
-himself criticised John
-each other criticised them
i need to explain why these sentences are ungrammatical
I love it! This really cleared somethings up for me!
+Jordan Ring Glad you found it helpful! ^_^
Thanks a lot Moti!
Your videos are dope, thanks a lot.
ENLIGHTEN ME...
"Referential Noun Phrases can never be c-commanded by anything, ever."
Then how about, "She is still a cancer patient."?
In the beginning, there was an idea that every pronoun occurs after noun, but sentence above was the exception, however, in the end, the trilogy of principles still can not answer that...
@Strawchild And ur exception sentence is called cataphoric reference...
Where English teachers and grammarians really come unstuck is with English pronouns which notoriously don't fit into the Latin usage of nominative and accusative forms causing endless pointless discussions about whether you should say "It is I" or "It is me".
Aweesomee video