15 language in terms of transformational grammar and
another language in terms of, say, relational grammar and then to attempt to compare them. The results of such descriptions will be incompatible and incomparable.
Not all linguistic models are equally well suited as foundations of cross-language comparisons. It seems that those models which make explicit references to universal categories are more suitable than those which are connected
with language isolationism, inherent in many variants of structuralism.
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