At 09:44 PM 12/7/2008, STAHLKE, HERBERT F wrote: . . .
>I tend, as I've said before, to disagree with post-generative
>grammarians on innateness and to lean more towards Geoffrey
>Sampson's arguments in his book Educating Eve, but even Sampson
>acknowledged that while he had developed a strong rationale for a
>cognitive-based grammar there was no proof either way. These are
>not hypotheses that are in any way rigorous enough to be falsified. . . .
DD: Goodness gracious. There are people on this list that understand
scientific theory. I agree! Make the possible to be falsified
hypothesis and check out if it can be. { AND report back to the
community of your results.}
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