Re: theory (was: Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals)

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> No theory of language can explain everything, and so any theory will necessarily have some
> 'inconvenient facts' left over.
"No theory can exclude everything that is wrong, poor, or even
detestable, or include everything that is right, good, or beautiful."

        -- Arnold Schoenberg

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Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu