Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

语言是自由创造的过程;它的法则和原则是固定的,但是生成原则的使用方式是自由的,并且是无限变化的。甚至词语的解释和使用也需要一个自由创造的过程。

相关名言

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

纸上的字词、声音、字句,除了我们的想象力可以赋予它们以含义外,别无其他含义。

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

激动的语言充其量不过是生动的。你必须冷静,才能说出神谕。