Dear Dave,
I thought about responding to Harold's post, but figured you could do a better
job :-) I think the reason he doesn't understand the subconscious part is
because you and he are talking about two very different levels of language
usage, i.e. you are talking about the very deep, fundamental level that says
"I form a question by reversing the subject and verb, except when X, Y or Z
is needed" and that sort of thing, whereas he's talking about a very high
level of word choice, connotation, emphasis, and other matters of a more
pragmatic nature. It's always difficult to have a discussion when we're
talking right past each other...
HH: I had in mind
the specific examples of extraposition and leftward or rightward shifting that Robert gave in his paper under discussion. So we should have been on exactly the same page.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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