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Noam Chomsky's theory-based approach to language.
Humans are born with innate language rules.
Functionalism emphasizes empirical evidence and social context.
It enables innate language competence in children.
It involves morphemes that carry meaning.
They rely heavily on inflectional morphology.
Combining linguistic units into well-formed sentences.
To determine if a group of words forms a phrase.
Syntagm focuses on element combinations; paradigm on substitutions.
The ability of verbs to take arguments.
Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive.
Using 'be' or 'get' plus the past participle.
Dynamic focuses on action; statal on the resulting state.
It carries the main meaning of the sentence.
They add grammatical information like tense and aspect.
It links the subject to a description without indicating action.