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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Query Subject:	Jakobson quote
Author:	Hartmut Haberland
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Linguistic LingField(s):	General Linguistics

Query:	Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:39:31 +0100 Hartmut Haberland hartmut@ruc.dk Jakobson quote Roman Jakobson is supposed to have said something like ''Languages differ not so much in what they can say but in what they must say'' (in the sense that some languages force you to make some choices - number in nouns, aspect in verbs - which others are indifferent to). I have quoted it myself, but cannot find the reference at the moment. Any help out there? Hartmut Haberland
LL Issue:	9.20
Date posted:	09-Jan-1998
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