cross-linguistic categorization

[Tahir Wood]

>>> Esa Itkonen <eitkonen at utu.fi> 03/22/10 3:52 PM >>>
Dear Funknetters: Many if not most people would subscribe to the
following claims:

1) Meaning and form are two different things, and neither should be
ignored.

Well maybe most people will accept this one as it stands, but not me.
The possibility should be kept open that meanings are forms or that they
are somehow constituted via certain kinds of forms  (check Visetti et
al, for example, concerning the 'theory of semantic forms'). It may be
that some kinds of semantic forms are even archetypal in nature and
therefore crosscutting specific languages. I don't know, but it seems a
more promising proposal than the idea that 'categories' are crosscutting
universals in this way.
Tahir


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