10-2e0 Languages are theories. The vocabulary and grammar embody substantial assertions about the world.
10-2g4 Cultures and languages are reflexive
10-2g1f2a Our brains (including our emotions) and our cultures are related symbiotically through the individual, and that neither supervenes on the other
10-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.
10-2d1d Humans are distinguished because of the syntax of their DNA (genomes)
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’Grammar of society’develop
10-1c1 ‘Grammar of society’ - Society and culture are connected and constructed in grammar-like ways. Individuals are ‘fillers’ for slots in a culture-grammar.
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Piraha
- IMMEDIACY OF EXPERIENCE ⇒ No recursion
- AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate the future and the past
- This has probably nothing to do with quantum physics
- 1-2g1b1 Predicting the same outcome doesn’t mean they have the same explanation
- 10-2f3a1 Speaking the same language doesn’t mean they share the same exact meanings.
- 10-2g1f1 Natural selection can only operate on phenotypes (physical attributes) and not on genotypes (the knowledge bearing entity). The same (or similar) phenotypes doesn’t mean they share the same genotype.
- This has probably nothing to do with quantum physics
- AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate the future and the past
- Even the sound system is architectonically affected by culture
- IMMEDIACY OF EXPERIENCE ⇒ No recursion
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Methodology for Studying the Culture-Grammar Interface
- A suggested methodology for establishing culture-grammar connections
- That Piraha is not a unique case and that 10-1b8 All languages will show culture-language connections if we look for it!
- _It is hard to find such connections if we do not look for them!_
- The biggest lacuna in the study of ethnogrammar
- The effect of values, especially cultural taboos, in restricting both culture and grammar!
- 10-1b9 Ethnogrammatical studies are to explain the linkage between nonlinguistic evidence and noncultural evidence
- To explain how linking the two provides a conceptually and empirically superior account of the facts that leave them unconnected
1-2g1c3d Don’t judge a book by its cover. Read the whole context instead.