Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bandler and nested loops |
Posted by: | Eric Robbie |
Date/Time: | 30/03/2004 18:00:51 |
Because I was rushed, the example I gave a few days ago was not clear. If I may put that right: (For) what [reason] ...................................................................................................................... for ? did you bring (up) that book ............................................................................. up (out of) that [which] I don't like being read to, out of with the convention that (this) indicates where transposed words go before they get moved, and [this] indicates missing or implied words, or else, words that replace other words - in this case, the 'which' which is grammatically more correct than the 'that', and easier to say than the old-fashioned 'that which', which is very rarely used now. For an excellent discussion of how people 'parse' (read and make sense out of) such centre-embedded sentences, with the related topics of ‘memory load’, 'right-branching', and 'left-branching', see Chapter 7 of The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker. If I could have my druthers (an American English expression, being a contraction from "I would rather"), everybody who writes about language and psychology would write with his clarity, elegance, knowledge, and, yes, humour. |