Linguistics

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Linguistics is the scientific study of human language.

Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Example sentences 4 References 5 External links

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• It’s as if we’re higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
  • Noam Chomsky [1]

[edit] Unsourced

• We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
  • Chogyam Trungpa

[edit] Example sentences

• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
  • Illustrating a meaningless but grammatical sentence.
  • Chomsky, Noam (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague/Paris: Mouton. pp. 15. 

• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
  • Illustrating ambiguity.
  • Misattributed to Groucho Marx; first recorded on Usenet group net.jokes in 1982: Bill Banze (1982-09-07). "<bnews.mork-cb.130> Time flies...". net.jokes. (Google Groups). Retrieved on 2009-08-31.^[1]

• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
  • Illustration of homonyms and homophones.
  • William J. Rapaport, 1972^[2]

[edit] References

1. ↑ See also Fred R. Shapiro, Joseph Epstein (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 498, in which the earliest appearance of the saying is attributed to the net.jokes post. Shapiro and Epstein give the post's date as 9 July 1982, transposing the day and month of the Usenet post.
2. ↑ Rapaport, William J. 22 September 2006. "A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."". Accessed 23 September 2006. (archived copy)

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