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Re: Sawilan Constructions

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 10, 1999, 15:32
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote: > > > Or wait till I go back to school and become a *real* linguist > > someday, and see whether in the process I realize that Cog. Gram. is > > just a notational variant (since I've already read FOCG; that would > > save you the trouble). > > Of course! All competing theories are 1) just a notational > variant of your own, and 2) wrong. >
That means that all theories are wrong, including ones own - and I think I can readily agree with that proposition ;-). After all, it's a well-known fact that a language cannot be described... Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt