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Re: Evolution of Applicatives

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, November 15, 2004, 12:51
Hi!

Tristan Mc Leay <conlang@...> writes:
>... > >Most English speakers massively overgenerate > >false negatives, when it comes to acceptability judgements. > > Is this perculiar to English speakers?
I don't think so, because an isolated sentence often does not provide the disabiguating information that would make it perfectly acceptable in normal conversation. Some sentences in German also feel strange in isolation, but when you listen to taking people, it's amazing what is generated without causing a raise of an eyebrow with the listener. **Henrik