Re: ergative? I don't know...
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 26, 1998, 15:53 |
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Charles wrote:
> This may be the legacy of Chomsky and others who generalized
> about all languages from a study of just one (well, some say
> that; I was anti-Chomsky before it became fashionable ...)
"If it's true for English, Italian, and Hebrew, it's universal."
-- some glazed-eyed Chomskyite
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)