According to Guest, a “[l]anguage is a system of communication that uses symbols –such as words, sounds, and gestures- organized according to certain rules, to convey any kind of information” (Guest 2014, 115). It has already been confirmed that the al-Sayyid people have a gestured-central language which they use to create productivity, “the linguistic ability to use known words to invent new combinations”, and displacement, “the ability to use words to refer to objects not immediately present or events occurring in the past or future” (Guest 2014, 116). Two examples from the articles include the al-Sayyid people using “the sign for prayer combined with a reference to the direction of the city [of Jerusalem] from their current location” and point to a house in reference to someone else not involved in the conversation (Rubin, 2016). Another definition put in question is grammar which is a “combined sets of observations about rules governing the formation of morphemes and syntax that guide language use” (Guest 2014, 119). The problem here is that the al-Sayyid sign language has “lacked many rules of grammar” for most of its existence which conflicts with “[t]he linguist Noam Chomsky, [who], has argued that humans — unique among all animals — are born with a ‘universal grammar’ already in place, and that an understanding of language is genetic and innate rather than learned” . This example proved
According to Guest, a “[l]anguage is a system of communication that uses symbols –such as words, sounds, and gestures- organized according to certain rules, to convey any kind of information” (Guest 2014, 115). It has already been confirmed that the al-Sayyid people have a gestured-central language which they use to create productivity, “the linguistic ability to use known words to invent new combinations”, and displacement, “the ability to use words to refer to objects not immediately present or events occurring in the past or future” (Guest 2014, 116). Two examples from the articles include the al-Sayyid people using “the sign for prayer combined with a reference to the direction of the city [of Jerusalem] from their current location” and point to a house in reference to someone else not involved in the conversation (Rubin, 2016). Another definition put in question is grammar which is a “combined sets of observations about rules governing the formation of morphemes and syntax that guide language use” (Guest 2014, 119). The problem here is that the al-Sayyid sign language has “lacked many rules of grammar” for most of its existence which conflicts with “[t]he linguist Noam Chomsky, [who], has argued that humans — unique among all animals — are born with a ‘universal grammar’ already in place, and that an understanding of language is genetic and innate rather than learned” . This example proved