autonomous syntax

Lise Menn, Linguistics, CU Boulder lmenn at CLIPR.COLORADO.EDU
Fri Jan 10 21:32:57 UTC 1997


Ann Peters gave me a very nice analogy for the diachronic relationship
between form and function: it's like two legs loosely hobbled together -
they have a certain amount of independence, so can go off in separate
directions, but not very far before one pulls on the other.
Lise Menn



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