AWAD chat - Guy Deutscher
As usual giving y'all plenty of warning. 2:00PM EST today (that'd be 1800UTC). Like to see some high-powered linguists there. He (and this may be an oversimplification) seems to have this theory that...
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I take it you haven't read the book. That's not at all what he says. He says (in very rough summary) there's a continuous process of reshaping language, with the "forces of destruction" and "forces of...
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LH-It seems we must be trading structural complexity for some other complexity if that is true. What we can see of the evolution of language shows that ancient languages such as Sanskrit, Latin,...
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We've replaced inflectional complexity with periphrastic complexity in syntax. As anybody who's tried to teach English to non-native speakers soon comes to realize. Things like subtle moods, phrasal...
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ancient languages such as Sanskrit, Latin, classical Greek, etc. had vastly more complex grammars than modern languages.Let me rephrase that: ancient Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit, Latin,...
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I take it you haven't read the bookRight. And I was disabused of my oversimplification (that I got off a web page touting the book) with the answer to my very first question.
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but that's so short people started saying au jour d'huiSo, what did the tall people say?
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