> On Jun 13, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>> Oh, so... despite all the differences in languages the fact that all
>> languages have grammar implies that there's a real universal grammar
>> rooted
>> in brain structures rather than in the seemingly circular character of the
>> abstraction? Geertz woulda had a field day with this, it may be universal
>> but its so indeterminate as to make the universal meaningless...
>>
>
> Alan,
>
> this ridicule is ill-directed and dare I say, ignorant. May I suggest the
> Wikipedia page, at the least, on Generative Grammar or Universal Grammar?
>
>
Good point, I need to stop intervening in areas about which I know little or
nothing... it does nothing but get me in (quite proper) trouble.