Re: LANGUAGE LAWS

Tommie Powell wrote:
> So I don't believe that the first language had any defined (or
> definite) words
The problem with your argument lies in crude sign languages created by
deaf people isolated from other deaf people.  Before there was any deaf
community, deaf people simply created a few crude signs, which their
family could interpret.  They might have a sign for "food/eat" (note
that when I said "a few nouns and verbs, I did not mean that they were
necessarily differentiated, only that there were probably no words that
functioned as adpositions, etc,), or "water/drink", and things like
that.  These are *definite* words.  Note that I agree that there
probably weren't words that were specifically nouns, or specifically
verbs, I simply meant that the first words probably were noun/verbs,
with few, if any, modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs, and probably
no gramatical relations like adpositions.

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