Noam Chomsky's major theoretical work establishing the standard theory of transformational-generative grammar, distinguishing competence from performance and deep from surface structure.
Distinguishes linguistic competence (the speaker's internalized grammatical knowledge) from performance (actual language use); develops the distinction between deep structure (underlying logical form) and surface structure; argues for an innate language acquisition device.
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