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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).
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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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Wouldn't the premise of Chomsky's universal grammar theory be trivially true?
The concept of universal grammar was initially posited by 17th century philosophers, and Chomsky picked up on and technically developed that idea. In Aspects of the theory of syntax, he quotes Beattie ...
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Wouldn't the premise of Chomsky's universal grammar theory be trivially true?
Well, the obvious counter-position to Chomsky is something like: Give a species a large enough brain, and it will start to develop language just as an emergent phenomenon of having enough intelligence....
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