Re: derivational history of the lexicon and reification of structure?

From: Mark Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 22:46:29 BST

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Subject: Re: derivational history of the lexicon and reification of structure?
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    Jess,

    At 03:38 PM 4/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
    >So here is my question to the list membership: does such a derived system
    >then have a cognitive "life" of its own?

    I wouldn't say 'life', but history sounds appropriate.

    > Is reification a form of "memory"?-

    I think reification an important set in establishing a memory. I haven't
    read as much as I would like on reification. It seems a very important
    process and is certainly available to many species.

    Mark

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