[B-Greek] Iterative, Customary, Gnomic, Conative, etc.

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Thu Mar 29 00:52:44 EDT 2007


It's an improvement, but it doesn't get to the heart of the distinction.

English-speaking linguists still use a metalanguage when describing  
the linguistics of English.

James

On 29/03/2007, at 11:49 AM, Curtis Hinson wrote:

> Well, unless we "talk" Greek well enough to talk about Greek  
> grammar IN Greek.  :-D
>
> Bless the Name
> Curtis Hinson
> http://curtishinson.com
>
> James Tauber wrote the following on 3/28/2007 8:11 PM:
>> In other words, while I agree that being able to talk about a   
>> language doesn't mean you can talk the language, the converse is  
>> also  true: just because you can talk the language doesn't mean  
>> you are  able to talk about it in a clear way.
>>




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