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Nick: > >(Are you no longer the functionalist you once were?) > > Horribile dictu, yes; that's what teaching has done to me (I've taken > to calling anti-formalists "hippies" in class.) Big change! Disenchantment with linguistics is taking me ever so slightly in the opposite direction towards a view of language as a prototype-based memory of low-level patterns in utterances -- a view which I find so boring and uncongenial that my interest in natural language has waned somewhat. BTW, I too was not always a formalist. I started out long long ago as a syntax-phobic cognitivist at a time when cognitivism had no bandwagon. A few years of totally discarded doctoral research cured me of that. --And.