LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1811. Sat Dec 21 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Subject: 7.1811, Disc: Analogy
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:36:31 -0500
From: ocls at ipa.net (George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin)
Subject: analogy
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:28:00 EST
From: "Ellen F. Prince" <ellen at central.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: analogy
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:36:31 -0500
From: ocls at ipa.net (George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin)
Subject: analogy
It seems to me that poetry demonstrates beyond question that any analogy
whatsoever may "happen" and probably will, and that the relevant question
is which analogies *persist* in a language, not which ones happen. And that
- as Benji Wald points out -- this is independent of questions about how
analogy may figure in Universal Grammar and similarly farflung
neurolocales.
Suzette Haden Elgin
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:28:00 EST
From: "Ellen F. Prince" <ellen at central.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: analogy
i got this in an email msg today (from a non-linguist):
'My RAV4 finally got off the boat!
I went to the importer's yard to look for it today. Thought maybe it
was one of 'a few' blue ones. Imagine my surprise when I saw all
^^^^^^^^^
of them blue (with only a few aquamarine)!!! So I don't know which
^^^^^^^^^^^^
one is actually mine...'
notice, btw, that it does not have the causative sense the earlier
discussions assumed it would have. also please note that i am not
making any claims that analogy had anything to do with this
utterance -- just thought it might amuse/interest you.
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