For Wednesday, Sept. 8, please read the brief excerpts from Chomsky 1957 Syntactic Structures and Chomsky 1965 Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, which I distributed at the end of our first class meeting.  (There are  extra copies in the mailbox by my office door @ 621 Comm. Ave, #110.)  On Wednesday, we’ll talk about some of the basic distinctions made in those readings, such as meaningfulness vs. grammaticality, and competence vs. performance.