| In a message dated 6/11/2001 2:19:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
ragnarok@pobox.com writes: If about half of us agree not to even read the parts of the Book that Well, it wouldn't be a S-W test, since it is not about the language. It would be a test of different sorts of heuristics for learning the language, Selma'o -- or some similar devices -- are essential for writing a grammar of the langauge, else we have at least as many rules as we have words. But they are not part of the language; they may not even correspond to a native speaker's intuitions about the structure of the language -- though at least some usually will. If you don't find them a help in learning the language, don't use 'em; if you do, do. But one way or the other you have to learn what can go where when in a sentence (which is about all a selma'o is -- some are also phonologically defined). |