Generative Anthropology Society

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    “Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.”
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    “History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
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    “There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
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