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abstract: 'It is argued that structural properties shared by a large number of studied languages cannot be a mere result of coincidences but must have been acquired („learnt") and proved useful in the course of evolution. Bodily and cognitive boundary conditions and limitations as well as efficiency requirements are claimed to lie the basis of the observed regularities. '
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date: 2002-09
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keywords: linguistic core properties
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referencetext: |-
  Guglielmo Cinque, Adverbs and Functional Heads, Oxford University Press, 1999
  Manfred Eigen, Peter Schuster, Naturwissenschaften 64, 541-565, 1977; 65, 7-41, 1978
  Knud Thomsen, Cogprints ID 857, 2000
  Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, and Giacomo Rizzolatti, Brain 119, 593-609, 1996
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suggestions: |-
  Dear Editor,
  
  Admittedly, the note is rather speculative, and it is by far not a fully worked out paper, but as I understand, when setting up your archive there was the intention to invitate for "sky writing". ...Now I almost exclusively see fully edited papers published in journals.(?)
  
  kind regards, Knud Thomsen
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title: Short remarks on the hierarchical structure recently found in all languages by Guglielmo Cinque
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