Only dead languages can be studied by analytic, abstracting grammar methods

Evidence

Every language game has a certain grammar, by which I mean the rules that enable a person to participate and thereby to understand that language game. In even the simplest of human situations, there will be many language games, overlaid as it were. Imagine two parents watching their child play a little-league game. The rules that constrain the child from running from first base directly to third are not part of the same system of rules that constrain the father from shouting abuse at the opposing pitcher or that constrain the coach from selling tickets. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 446 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 446

Related

• Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game. #corroborates (0.70) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 446