<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Adam<div>Of course the joke should be stored in the same box as (I think) Karen Sparck Jones' great observation that, in Montague Grammar the </div><div>complicated concepts (e.g. "life") have no content or structure whereas the simple or dispensible (in slavic) ones (like "the") have enormous structures----"the" is about 50 characters long if memory serves.</div><div>YW</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2 Jan 2010, at 05:46, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Answer: life prime<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke? (I heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no idea if that's right)</div><div><br></div>
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