“From now on I will consider language to be a set (finite or inf

“From now on I will consider language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.”
Please comment on the above definition of language.
【正确答案】：（1）This definition of language was proposed by Chomsky in 1957．
(2) It focuses on the purely structural properties of languages and suggests that these properties can be investigated from a mathematically precise point of view．．But，
(3) It says nothing about the communicative function of natural or non-natural languages and,
（4） it says nothing about the symbolic nature of the elements of language．
【评分说明】举例合理，适当给分；解释意思相近，酌情给分。