Resistance:
Is not a unitary phenomenon with one cause.
Is there resistance stemming from the mere existence of structure itself?
Or is structure to be conceived as absolutely pliable
so that the slightest change produces a new structure?
Is every change in the rules of chess the creation of a new game?
This is just a verbal quibble, if the rules are taken in abstraction from their social existence in process?
Because structures as embodied do resist.
Does grammar have inertia?
As a formal system* of combinations, no.
But as a system of norms, yes.
When we make mistakes with grammar
We are not yet speaking a new language
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001