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Re: A question

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 16:15
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:

> Well you really can't, if you work out the grammar than you are working > out the morphology and syntax. There was a linguistics dictionary on the
Morphology: How words be made. Syntax: How statements be made. Now, one can have all kinds of fancy-pants words for all the parts of words and statements, but if you're doing grammar and word-lists, you're already doing syntax and morphology. It's like the GURPS description of the science of Agronomy: A skilled farmer is an Agronomist even if he doesn't know how to spell the word.