Universal Grammar

Pragmatics are about the world. Universal Grammar theory is about language. What would the two have to do with one another?

Thank you Fresco for your support in this chaotic environment, hopelessly orchestrated resentment, contretemps evolving into obsessive malevolence

Your continuous whining is risible..

Tim I envy that serenity. I cannot deny angriness, at least on a subliminal level, and the satisfaction, indeed, a hilarity, I derive at least consciously

Something like all those cops, shooting 41 times that fella reaching for his handkerchief, outwardly confident in the absolute necessity for order in the Humanoid Kingdom but subconsciously a kind of fun

I don't excuse it though. As I said, it's an obsession, a deviant passion, just short of maniacal, often leading me to ask why I can't devote all this time to something more constructive

Alas alack

Well I don't intend to tackle this assignment here, but if I were to plan it I might start with Chomsky's proposition of linguistic universals as a "wired in" propensity of humans to abstract grammatical rules irrespective of intelligence or particular culture. Now there may be an argument that such rules which ontologically reflect subjects as active agents ( S=NP+VP from Chomsky's Transformational Generative Grammar) are related to an axiomatic adage of pragmatists of the form"reality is what works". Obviously there are alternative views and counter-arguments to such an approach which takes linguistics as a substrate for our interactions with "the world". (See the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and criticisms thereof for expansion of this).

Ah-hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . .

Poor bay-bee . . .

Leaving aside the hilarious melodramatic fantasy--this describes you to a tee with your passive-aggressive hostility, using things like this "anger" BS to attempt to needle people. You're a hypocritical phony and . . .

. . . a great, braying jackass.

Wrong question. Dale correctly identified the complexities implied by the OP. My answer above further illustrates that complexity and indicates why this forum is inappropriate for such technical discussion.

I suppose you are referring to this answer:



Such complexity befuddles me..