From: Richard Lindeman (richlind@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 28 1998 - 10:42:18 EST
>The assumption that there are language universals (or rules or
>commonalities between languages) is due, in large part, to the
>observation that every child, almost regardless of IQ, acquires
>his/her (spoken) language rapidly and with no (or little) overt
>instruction.
OK.... now I see where you are coming from. We actually have been talking
the same language all along. What I have been trying to describe from a
contextual framework... you have been trying to describe the very same thing
from a common linguistic framework... the grammatical terminology concepts
which *all languages* hold in common. So then we actually have been talking
about the very same thing but from different vantage points! Sorry that I
did not pick up on this sooner.
Rich Lindeman
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:39:19 EDT