Re: One language for the world
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 8, 2000, 15:03 |
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At 00:47 07.6.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>but my question is: how would living on another planet affect language
>change? Lexically, yeah, I could believe that easily; but grammatically I
>don't see any reason for it to change in a fashion any different from the
>language change already attested on earth.
As long as the speakers are human the same constraints and triggers would
apply everywhere, as far as I can see.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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