Re: virus: Sign memes & Chomsky
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 18 Apr 1997 07:19:47 +0100
In message <970416.152100.CT.COOKCORE@ESUVM>, "Corey A. Cook"
<COOKCORE@esuvm.emporia.edu> writes
>
>I think that what it comes down to is that, in a round about
>way, I am trying to say that a number of reasons contribute to
>the similarity of high order grammer in all languages. Also, the
>reason that I am not willing to accept "linguistically isolated
>environments" is that they don't seem to be possibile. How could
>they exist? Unless we are talking about a seperatly evolved species,
>there _must_ be some link back to the rest of the world. Nobody
>might know what that link is, or when it happened, but they must
>have come from somewhere.
Fair comment Corey. I need to read some of these books on order
to get any further.
Tony Hindle.