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Human natural language metalanguage

There are constructed languages that are designed to be parsable, the original was Loglan and it spawned some forks, e.g., Lojban and gua\spi (shortly mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Lojban). I ...
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Human natural language metalanguage

This is an interesting discussion of this question, from Pullum: How Many Possible Human Languages Are There? Geoffrey K. Pullum Linguistic Inquiry Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 447-467 (21 pages)...
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