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As an aside, I wonder if, of the few thousand languages there are, any is so unselfconscious as not to have a word for itself, as one language among many?) d-e. socio-cultural f-i. cognitive j-k. stylistic l-n. structured o. semantic p-u. variously expressible v-w. pedagogical My question here is whether, in principle, every noun and adjective can be unambiguously classed as either self-referring or nonself-referring.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977