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Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> I don't want people to need to understand the divisions we're
> creating to try to understand how the language works. I think that
> even "morphology" versus "grammar" is artificial and arbitrary, and
> I don't think people should have to go to two places to get their
> questions answered.

There's pretty good cross-linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence that
people do have separate morphology and syntax modules in their heads
(in particular, different kinds of mental problems can impair one but
not the other).

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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit