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Re: Too Many Too Little Possible Roots!!!

From:Matt Pearson <mpearson@...>
Date:Friday, November 20, 1998, 18:15
Kristian Jensen skrev:

>An extremely interesting example, Matt, to convince me all-the-more >of my theory. I'm beginning to become more and more convinced that >there must be some *ideal* amount of possible roots that natlangs >attempt to obtain/maintain. You're a proffesional linguist, right?
Well, I'm a grad student and I'm getting paid to TA linguistics, if that counts as 'professional'.
>So you wouldn't by chance know what this secret number is? Come on, >let us all in to your secret!! I know you know!!
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. Matt. ------------------------------------ Matt Pearson mpearson@ucla.edu UCLA Linguistics Department 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 ------------------------------------