data judgments thereon teaching linguistics linguist 51247 benji wald said heard syntactician suggest introductory syntax classes certain theories taught true without attending known fallacies theories way students get foundation learning make syntactic arguments fallacies would exposed advanced courses would way making syntactic arguments change guess whoever nt take advanced syn tax classes go hell assume theories syntax make semianecdote relevant maybe syntactician insisting introductory classes may challenge grammaticality judgments used data illustrative analysis sound familiar otherwise lesson could taught form discipline might hard unlearn hard teacher resist taking advantage advanced courses syntax teachers care comment nt say thought suppose taking benji gage though want understood much sympathy say remember little 10 years ago taking course lexical phonology got argument prof insisted one co rollaries theory people inherently plural explained nonexistence overt plural peoples insisted word peoples certainly exist therefore theo retical claim nt ipso facto falsified cf rev vii 9 great multitude one could number every nation tribes peoples languages presumably people passage means something like ethnic group therefore precisely equivalent people meaning many persons set human beings would also note one common meaning universe set existing things would also imply word universes ought exist either one thing variant usage universe makes roughly synonymous galaxy group galaxies course many also freely used talking parallel universes etc paedagogical point view think perfectly legitimate linguistics teacher say bunch strings attendant grammaticality judgments generalizations draw data save threat protest student happens fluent language discussion gram maticality judgment invoking notion idiolect claiming judgments accurate reflection one particular individu al linguistic behaviour deduce internalized grammar individual course assumes linguists concerned language psychological cognitive phenomenon believe legitimate also opinion legitimately concerned language social phenomenon case language simply property individual mind community gram maticality judgments may different communal level individual level think teachers need honest stu dents means allowing luxury certain type level judgment one occasion different one another much possible time making clear students level working addressing broader issues come following joseph stemberger posting linguist 51163 think also need make clear difference grammaticality acceptability judg ments introductory lecture prepared course yet opportunity teach attempt explain given string e g 3 angry toothbrush pregnant may perfectly grammatical semantically pragmatically anomalous might rejected reason another string e g tooth brush orange rabbit garden may fully terpretable therefore semantically anomalous nevertheless violate certain constraints grammar would inclined reject claim georgia green occasionally put facetiously class elsewhere rules grammar must include rules arithmetic realworld knowledge thus son say moon made green cheese might challenge content statement con struction dr steven schaufele 712 west washington urbana il 61801 217344 8240 fcosws prairienet org syntagmata linguarum liberemini humanarum nihil vestris privari nisi obicibus potestis