LT: Category Check

Everett, Daniel DEVERETT at BENTLEY.EDU
Mon Dec 17 14:07:17 UTC 2012


Hear, hear, Martin.

On Dec 17, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Martin Haspelmath wrote:

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> But I think one should be careful to avoid the impression that the grammatical terms we use are anything other than convenient tools used by linguists. Categories of languages are language-specific entities, and they cannot be "polysemous" or "homonymous".
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> Greetings,
> Martin
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