Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the time

> Date:    Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:29:56 EDT
> From:    Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...>
> Subject: Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the
>          time
>
> In a message dated 9/6/2003 11:15:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> trinsic@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
>>>However, there are some universals, especially
>>>9 and 10 that I have yet to quite understand. All of this came about
>>>quite naively, as I have never had any formal education in linguistics
>>>(above basic college-level english). While I have always assumed the
>>>existance of such universals, I had never seen them until now.
>
> Let me try rephrasing them.
>
> Doug
Thanks, your examples help out a lot. It looks like I dont violate
either of them. The question marker is an agglutination in front of the
word, which agrees with the prepositional language.

-Trinsic