Place grammars involve norms and expectations.

Do they? Think about Bourdieu's notion of habitus and other theories about non-explicit and non-unified norms. Aren't you making the mistake of postulating some fully explicit formal structure behind behavior?

This objection is considered at some length at elsewhere.

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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001