1. Competence and Performance
Chomsky's objection to analyses of corpora is based on the distinction that he draws between two concepts: competence and performance.
The criticism of structuralism laid the basic foundations of TGG, causing modern linguistics to make a colossal footstep in the course of its development. TGG involved certain new concepts about language as a reality and about the way it should be analysed.
Chomsky's objection to analyses of corpora is based on the distinction that he draws between two concepts: competence and performance.