Chomsky's criticism of Bloomfieldian structuralism's conception of linguistic reality applies
equally to his own conception of linguistic reality. There are too many sentences in a natural
language for them to have either concrete acoustic reality or concrete psychological or
neural reality. Sentences have to be types, which, by Peirce's generally accepted definition,
means that they are abstract objects. Given that sentences are abstract objects, Chomsky's
generativism as well as his psychologism have to be given up. Langendoen and Postal's …