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

dirk elzinga wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
>
> > No theory of language can explain everything, and so any theory will necessarily have some
> > 'inconvenient facts' left over.
>
> "No theory can exclude everything that is wrong, poor, or even
> detestable, or include everything that is right, good, or beautiful."
>
>         -- Arnold Schoenberg
Nice!

Matt.