[Excerpt] Syntax facilitates Predication

Part Of: Language sequenceSee Also: Linear GrammarAdapted From: Jean-Louis Dessalles (2007). Why We TalkContent Summary: 1200 words, 6 min read Linear Grammar as Crude Predication. Protolanguage as a Vestige (Fossilized Competence). Bickerton sees protolanguage as a fossil, a behavourial vestige with which each of us is endowed. We are able, effortlessly and instantaneously, to adopt Continue…