Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or system:
“The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Websters Fugitive-Slave Bill.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a language acquisition device, an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)