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From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
Subject: Re: What's innate?
Message-ID: <1995Mar13.150019.22906@oracorp.com>
Organization: Odyssey Research Associates, Inc.
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 15:00:19 GMT
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jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu writes:

>daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote:
>
>> He's not being inconsistent. Claiming that grammar is based on usage
>> is *not* the same thing is saying that the set of grammatical
>> sentences is identical with the set of sentences people actually
>> utter, because there are other constraints on utterances other than
>> grammatical ones.
>
>The inconsistency is to refuse to allow language mavens this
>argument for the validity of their grammatical advice, while allowing
>Pinker it.

I really have no idea what you are talking about.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY
