Kotsoudas' principles
I was influenced by a linguistics professor, Andreas Kotsoudas, in spite of his mumbling about the stock market, on which he occasionally lost big money. He maintained two principles, one of which he was even given credit for when we actually did our reading.That was: Things that are similar to your first language are harder to master than things that are very different.
The other was one that he taught us but didn't actually take credit for. It was: There is movement in language: we "transform" words to make the sentences we want. But there's only one rule: fronting. It's one big simple rule, with lots of conditions.
More on each of these (relatively) unrelated principles later.
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