Who defined language as "a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements" ?
Correct answer: A. Noam Chomsky
- A. Noam Chomsky
- B. Ferdinand de Saussure
- C. Edward Sapir
- D. None of the above
Explanation
This definition emphasises that language can generate a finite or infinite number of sentences from a finite set of elements, a central idea in Noam Chomsky's transformational-generative grammar.
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