No Proto-Celtic?

Stanley Friesen sarima at friesen.net
Mon Jun 4 13:46:52 UTC 2001


At 02:27 PM 6/1/01 -0400, Thomas McFadden wrote:

>of course it depends on what you mean by grammar, but under my conception
>of the term i have to disagree with you strongly on this.  flexibility in
>word order is actually regulated rather tightly by the grammatical system
>of a given language, it seems.

I am with you here.

>don't.  and in most cases where multiple variants exist, there is an
>identifiable difference, even if its hard to find.  usually it's not a
>difference in the truth-conditional semantics, but there's perhaps a
>difference in what is implied, or in the conditions where you would say it.

The last is quite frequent.  Often one way to get at this sort of thing is
by asking what question each of the variants might be an answer to.

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