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“All that remains to be done is to show how the subsequent development of language, from the ostensive, through the imperative and the interrogative to the declarative, through the development of grammatical categories and rules and so on, is nothing more than the application of this “method” discovered on the originary scene.”

— Adam Katz, The Right of the Idiom, 3 · Jul 2010 · GABlog