Re: theory (was: Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals)

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> Yes, what's concerned me the Chomskians & the 'deep structure' brigade is
> that all their theorizing seems to derive from English.
Cynically expressed (bow-wow) as "If it's true in English, Italian, and
Hebrew, it's universal."

But in fact I think this complaint is obsolete.  There are just too many
languages that have been given GB treatment nowadays.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter