RD:>>The issue is not coherence in the semantic sense, but syntactic > intelligibility. <<
The issue for proponents and opponents of a formalised grammar might be: Is it use of rules that decides syntactical well-formedness? Time and time again I have seen Chomskian grammarians use their 'intuition' that this or that chunk of language is not well-formed or not possible within a given language, and yet actual language use, such as the artefacts of a corpus (now completely searchable using computers and the internet) show the exact opposite. I think more and more it's that most people have no time for a type of linguistics that doesn't want to deal with real language. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
