What every speaker knows

Philosophical Review 80 (4):476-496 (1971)
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The question I hope to answer is brief: What does every speaker of a natural language know? My answer is briefer still: Nothing, or at least nothing interesting. Explaining the question, and making the answer plausible, is a longer job.

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