[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 11 10:18:44 PDT 2009


Lots of languages (like Latin and Greek) don't use "I" or ("go") in regular sentence construction, but use it to provide emphasis. But they indicate first-person-ness in other ways, so it's probably not relevant.

--- On Thu, 6/11/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:

(AFAIK --
> every now and then some Deepak Chopra type person offers
> that the Gojambi, a remote tribe in the impenetrable forests
> of Ecuador, have no word for "I" and do not use this or that
> sentence construction at all; but most such claims seem to
> be either exaggerated or irrelevant to the UG thesis). Again
> AFAIK, the UG stands unrefuted. Further, the base work done
> by Chomsky w.r.t syntax shall always remain foundational,
> given its value to such fields as Computer Science.
>



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