[net.nlang] anomalous sentences

john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) (12/27/85)

With reference to understanding malformed (anomalous) linguistic fragments,
I had a linguistics Prof who defined "anomalous sentence" by saying "An
anomalous sentence is a sentence that when you hear it you know what it
means but you think maybe there's something wrong with it."
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