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Re: Native Grammatical terms

From:Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 21:50
Isidora Zamora wrote:
> I am gathering opinions on what amount of native grammatical > terms would be present in a conlang which is entirely oral...
The native speakers obviously understand their language's grammar, so all the concepts it uses are expressible in it, so they can use its own words for those concepts as the terms for its grammar (no matter what else they use those words for).