data judgment thereon teach linguistics linguist benjus wald once hear syntactician suggest introductory syntax class certain theory teach true without attend fallacy theory student foundation learning syntactic arguments fallacy expose advance course syntactic argument change too guess whoever nt advance syn tax class hell assume theory syntax semianecdote relevant maybe syntactician insist introductory class challenge grammaticality judgment datum illustrative analysis sound familiar otherwise lesson teach s form discipline hard unlearn hard teacher resist advantage advance course syntax teachers care comment nt ll suppose m benjus s gage though want understand m much sympathy remember little over ago course lexical phonology argument prof insist one co rollary theory inherently plural explain nonexistence overt plural insist word certainly exist therefore theo retical claim nt ipso facto falsify cf rev vius great multitude one number every nation tribe language presumably passage means something ethnic group therefore precisely equivalent mean many person set human being note one common mean universe set exist thing imply word universe ought exist either one thing variant usage universe roughly synonymous galaxy group galaxy course many freely talk parallel universe etc paedagogical point view perfectly legitimate linguistics teacher here s bunch string attendant grammaticality judgment generalization draw datum save ourselve threat protest student happen fluent language under discussion against gram maticality judgment invoke notion idiolect claim judgment accurate reflection one particular individu al s own linguistic behaviour deduce internalize grammar individual course assume linguist concern language psychological cognitive phenomenon believe legitimate opinion legitimately concern language social phenomenon case language simply property individual mind community gram maticality judgment different communal level individual level teacher need honest our stu dent means allow ourselve luxury certain type level judgment one occasion different one another much possible each clear our student level re work address broader issue follow joseph stemberger s post linguist need clear difference between grammaticality acceptability judg ment introductory lecture prepare course yet opportunity teach attempt explain string e g angry toothbrush pregnant perfectly grammatical semantically pragmatically anomalous reject reason while another string e g tooth brush orange rabbit garden fully terpretable therefore semantically anomalous nevertheless violate certain constraint grammar incline reject claim georgium green occasionally put facetiously class elsewhere rule grammar must include rule arithmetic realworld knowledge thus son moon green cheese challenge content statement con struction dr steven schaufele west washington urbana il fcosw prairienet org o syntagma linguarum libereminus humanarum nihil vestri privarus nisus obicibus potesti 