Acquisition Quote by Noam Chomsky

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that…

— Noam Chomsky

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features of what…

— Noam Chomsky

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

— Larry Trask

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -…

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business…

— David Crystal