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At 05:08 PM 4/29/03 +0100, And wrote:
#There's no difference. Languages are languages (strings of symbols, #presumably with meaning). That sounds very much like Chomsky 1957. But, as I say, that was an aberration. A language is a set of sentences consisting of a pairing of sound and meaning. Or it is a set of rules defining possible sentences.
I don't know anything about the theory stuff you are discussing, but I believe that the Loglan/Lojban formal grammar philosophy derives more directly from the work of Yngve, and not Chomsky. Yngve's name got tossed around a lot at the time, at least.
The relation, if any, between Yngve and Chomsky, someone else will have to elucidate.
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