On 12/13/15 6:24 PM, Franklin Ransom wrote:
Human languages differ with respect to the rules of construction and
the things that can be said, and they also develop and evolve over
time; the development of a language to the point where it can
articulate scientific terminology is not a development shared by every
human language.
Can you give your source for this? I remember reading the opposite from
two different linguists. Michael Shapiro is one. (I'd have to search for
the exact statements, but the keyword I'd use is 'passkey'.) Edward
Vajda writes
" Human language is unlimited in its expressive capacity."
"Today, it is quite obvious that people living with Stone Age technology
speak languages as complex and versatile as those spoken in the most
highly industrialized society. _There are no primitive languages_.
Virtually no linguist today would disagree with this statement."
--
Matt
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