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Columbia School in the functional-cognitive space

 Butler, Christopher & Francisco Gonzálvez-García. 2014. The Columbia School. Exploring functional-cognitive space. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co. Section 2.7, pp. 68-73.

The general picture of human language is that of a particular kind of instrument of communication, an imprecise code by means of which precise messages can be transmitted through the exercise of human ingenuity.  The code and the ingenuity must be kept clearly separate; most of the difficulties encountered in the various schools of linguistic analysis result, simply, from the attempt to build the ingenuity into the structure of language itself.   

— William Diver

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