2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151388A key problem in the description of language structure is to explain its contradictory properties of specificity and generality, the contrasting poles of formulaic prescription and generative productivity. I argue that this is possible if we accept analogy and similarity as the basic mechanisms of structural definition. As a specific example I discuss how it would be possible to use analogy to define a generative model of syntactic structure.6 pages, PostscriptComputation and Languagetext