•Competence: has nothing to do with comprehension, nothing to do with production;
model of knowledge in an abstract form; does not tell you how to understand a sentence.
•L = {S1, S2, S3, . . . Sⁿ }, only
well-formed sentences
•Pairs each sentence with deep structure and
logical form – this has nothing to do with the
way humans generate sentences.
•Grammar is a mathematical
system that exists independent of humans.