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Cultural constraints on Aharip grammar

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John Atkinson

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May 14, 2008, 6:08:50 AM5/14/08
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Peter, as well as any other fans of Dan Everett's that are hanging
around, may perhaps be interested in the above article which appeared
recently on Greater Blogazonia.

J.

Peter T. Daniels

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May 14, 2008, 8:32:36 AM5/14/08
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Which article would that be? (You've had more than two hours to notice
that something was missing ...)

John Atkinson

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May 14, 2008, 9:27:32 AM5/14/08
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"Peter T. Daniels" <gram...@verizon.net> wrote..

GIYF.

Peter T. Daniels

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May 14, 2008, 10:04:42 AM5/14/08
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On May 14, 9:27 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote..

Sorry?

Ekkehard Dengler

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May 14, 2008, 10:23:59 AM5/14/08
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(")Google is your friend("):

http://anthroling.wordpress.com/category/humor/

Regards,
Ekkehard


Peter T. Daniels

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May 14, 2008, 12:19:33 PM5/14/08
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Well, that's 90 seconds of my life I'll never get back ... some of
those jokes were current in mid-70s Generative Semantics circles.

John Atkinson

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May 15, 2008, 3:49:32 AM5/15/08
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"Peter T. Daniels" <gram...@verizon.net> wrote...

>On May 14, 10:23 am, "Ekkehard Dengler" <ED...@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
.> > On May 14, 9:27 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> >> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote..
>
>> >>> On May 14, 6:08 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> >>>> Peter, as well as any other fans of Dan Everett's that are
>> >>>> hanging
>> >>>> around, may perhaps be interested in the above article which
>> >>>> appeared recently on Greater Blogazonia.

[...]
>
> http://anthroling.wordpress.com/category/humor/

>Well, that's 90 seconds of my life I'll never get back ... some of
>those jokes were current in mid-70s Generative Semantics circles.

That's quick going. AFAIK, Everett hadn't even heard of Piranha before
1976.

His paper was published in 2005, so some of those GSists must have been
circulating uptime through the fourth dimension.

J.

Peter T. Daniels

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May 15, 2008, 10:58:23 AM5/15/08
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On May 15, 3:49 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:

> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote...>On May 14, 10:23 am, "Ekkehard Dengler" <ED...@t-online.de> wrote:
> >> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> .> > On May 14, 9:27 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >> >> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote..
> >> >>> On May 14, 6:08 am, "John Atkinson" <johna...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> Peter, as well as any other fans of Dan Everett's that are
> >> >>>> hanging
> >> >>>> around, may perhaps be interested in the above article which
> >> >>>> appeared recently on Greater Blogazonia.

> >http://anthroling.wordpress.com/category/humor/


> >Well, that's 90 seconds of my life I'll never get back ... some of
> >those jokes were current in mid-70s Generative Semantics circles.
>
> That's quick going. AFAIK, Everett hadn't even heard of Piranha before
> 1976.
>
> His paper was published in 2005, so some of those GSists must have been
> circulating uptime through the fourth dimension.

E.g. the infinite regress of speech act "higher sentences" -- do we
know who Lev Michael is?

John Atkinson

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May 16, 2008, 11:52:05 PM5/16/08
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"Peter T. Daniels" <gram...@verizon.net> wrote...

Yes. We even know what he looks like.
http://lev.d.michael.googlepages.com/

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