Re: Language universals

>From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>Subject:      Re: Language universals
>Try going to Rick Morneau's site with a bunch of essays he wrote on
>language design. I believe he has one on universals. If not, then at
>least you'll find a bunch of other interesting essays that you might
>be able to use (if you're not using them already). The URL is:
>
>http://www.srv.net/~ram/essays.html
Thanks, Kristian!  Actually, I'd found that site once and lost it and
wondered where it went.  He refers to Greenberg's universals but doesn't
repeat the list, unfortunately, so alas I still am without them.

Rick does have a lot of interesting stuff, though!  Takes a very
different tack than I do, I guess cause he's an auxlanger and I'm an
artlanger or at least hobbylanger.

He's wrong about metaphor, though.  He needs to read Lakoff, Johnson,
and Turner. :)



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