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> Despite that seeming constraint, Adger argues in his new book, Language Unlimited, that the sentences we make are infinite in faculty, form, and expression.
by azangru 6y ago
> Despite that seeming constraint, Adger argues in his new book, Language Unlimited, that the sentences we make are infinite in faculty, form, and expression.
This is such a journalist thing to write. The idea that the number of sentences that can be produced using a given language is potentially infinite is such an old one that it hardly has anything to do with Adger, and Adger hardly needed to "argue" it.