Preliminaries

1. Prescriptive / Descriptive rules

2. Generative rules as a hypothesis

3. Source of data :

4. Learning vs acquisition

5. Universal grammar: innate, hard-wired building block of syntax..

6. Asyel buijan alshareef : section 042

7. Syntax

8. Syntax: the scientific study of sentence and structure

9. Performance/competence

10. Innateness of language

11. Principles: fixed - universal properties . Parameters: universal source of limited variation