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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Language and genes
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:13:35 GMT
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In article <aldersonD079Hu.13u@netcom.com>,
Richard M. Alderson III <alderson@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <D06JCA.BMt@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
>writes:
>
>>In article <aldersonD05uIB.Go4@netcom.com>,
>>Richard M. Alderson III <alderson@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>>In all my work, limited as it has been over the years, I've been as
>>>interested in how Indo-European studies could inform synchronic phonology as
>>>in how modern phonology could explicate Indo-European.  So I would say that
>>>the "meta-rules" are there, and interesting--and highly detailed.
>
>>This sounds all very interesting, and it's the kind of things I'm interested
>>in, too.  However, I would refer to it as the _rules_ of language change, not
>>_meta-rules_.
>
>Let's take this deeper.  What, in your view, would constitute a metarule with
>regard to language change?

A rule that explains language change by means of sociology, genetics
or some other discipline (e.g. "the GEVS was caused by the Black Death").

That's all I meant.  Really.  Maybe I should have said "para-rule".
[Or "hyper-rule".  I never did understand the Revised Report on
Algol68 :-)] 

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