Abstract
ing a set of rules or laws that will allow for the accurate prediction of actual, empirical events. Chomsky therefore makes a fundamental distinction between competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations) (1965, 4). Ideally, performance perfectly reflects what the reconstructed rules of linguistic competence dictates, and when it deviates from normatively derived predictions, it is consigned to the irrelevant realm of performative error. With the essence of language identified as its deep structure, the surface level varieties of performance are seen as merely symptomatic. What happens in performance is the result of prior determinations and in no way serves to constitute language
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