ahold

[Dennis R. Preston]

It is a well-known (and even published fact) that
many otherwise informed and even intelligent
people believe that languages exist.

dInIs

>On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:18 AM, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
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>
>>On a similar note of Sprachgefühl,
>
>and arbnold said


>this worries me a bit.  talking about Sprachgefuehl suggests that
>there is a language, English, out there, and individual people differ
>as to how good a "feel" they have for it.


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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
A-740 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 432-3099
Fax: (517) 432-2736
preston at msu.edu