Brad Johnston wrote:
> From page 31 of "The Language Instinct", by Steven Pinker, professor and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Copyright 1994.
>  
> ... The highest percentage of ungrammatical sentences was found in the proceedings of learned academic conferences.
>   

That's funny Brad. Pinker did a good job defining "grammar" for his 
purposes. I'd be interested to see any research on the ungrammatical 
scholars, classifications of their moving violations, and possible 
explanations for these. I can think of quite a few hypotheses.

Mark

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