Communicative language was not invented. It developed subconsciously and gradually – that is, it evolved. Its great survival value integrated it from the very beginning into the human genetic constitution. Subject, verb and object represent the thing that acts, the act and the thing acted on that are so prominent in experience. The syntactical order of the words is dictated by the natural order of the actions. Language is the mental parallel of action. Physical action is the hard core around which language has grown and taken shape. Language took the shape of action as naturally as snow takes the shape of the scape it covers. Where action was accompanied by sound, language mimicked the sound. Mimicry, because it can form habits, is a valuable learning tool, and this mimicry of aural experience portends that syntax took form by the mimicry of the action inherent in all experience. All languages exemplify this.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
