Re: Efficiency/Spatial Compactness
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 13:45 |
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In a message dated 7/18/2007 7:28:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
johnxcrowe@YAHOO.COM writes:
> Even if ungrammatical utterances are not considered part of the language,
> the argument works just as well.
My original reaction was that ungrammatical utterances aren't part of the
language. I've changed my mind. In some way, ungrammatical utterances are a
part of the language. I just haven't figured out what that way is yet. One
thought is that grammar specifies only perfect or pristine examples of language.
The ungrammatical utterances just tend to get ignored, but they should be
studied too, to see how they differ from the grammatical utterances, and to see if
there's any way to judge or quantify the grammaticality of an utterance.
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