Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 1993 12:23:14 CST

From:  salikoko mufwene <mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Dennis:

 I welcome Rudy's and your interventions in reply to Don's question on

metathesis, especially the ideas that speakers from the same language

community need not operate on the same active systems and that grammatical

systems need not be monolythic. Having been toying with the same assumptions

for some years now, it occurs to me that I have not come across any

discussion of polylythic competence. Did I get you wrong here? Would you

mind explaining? I could assign more than one interpretation to "polylythic

competence" but do not know which you intend. Before speculating, perhaps it

is charitable enough to invite you to explain.

Sali.

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Linguistics, U. of Chicago

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu

312-702-8531