[mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of
MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM
> How could it be understandable in units greater than a
sentence? Language
> is linear; utterances depend on what comes before, not what
comes after.
> Sentences are still small enough a unit to be able to deal
with this, but
> paragraphs and larger units just become weird, like time
travel (which may
> have an appeal of its own).
Spoken language is linear. How about sign language, which is
not really linear because several things can be signed
similtaneously.