form versus meaning

[Daniel L. Everett]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Diego Quesada wrote:

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> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel L. Everett wrote:

> Can you lay the egg?

I am afraid that the literary allusion here escapes me.

> Are you implying that the linguists in this list do
> not do syntax? Better, are you imlying that syntax is just the sort of
> closed set game formalists practice?

Nope. I am not implying that at all.

-DLE