This idea has been clarified by Steven Pinker in recent decades, though it was originally developed while its creator was a student under Zellig Harris.  
This idea has been clarified by Steven Pinker in recent decades, though it was originally developed while its creator was a student under Zellig Harris.  This model differentiates between subconscious control of a linguistic system, known as competence, and a speaker's actual use of language, known as performance.  Postulating a syntactic language base called deep structure that consists of a series of phrase-structure rewrite rules, this idea was originally put forth in its author's Syntactic Structures.  FTP, identify this model of grammar put forth by Noam Chomsky.
This idea has been clarified by Steven Pinker in recent decades, though it was originally developed while its creator was a student under Zellig Harris.  
transformational-generative grammar