Re Grammar

From: Price, Ilfryn (I.Price@shu.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 09:34:26 BST

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    Richard and someone

    <<I have begun to wonder if grammar developed because there is simply no
    other
    way to convey meaningful information.>>

    See Dennett's idea of "Good Tricks" in _Darwin's Dangerous Idea_. >

    Hard to see selection for Grammar before Language. So why language? Neatest idea I have seen is Elaine Morgan's. Its a by-product of
    developing a breathing system that allows diving.

    If

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