Abstract

In her article, Stanton (2025) argues that the real pattern analysis of language proffered by Nefdt (2023) fails as a demarcation of language versus non-language. She also makes the case that structuralism about linguistics does not characterise certain important metasemantic aspects of the broader field. In this article, I offer a rejoinder to these points by emphasising the role the linguistic community plays in determining real patterns as well as the theoretical benefits the view that grammars are multilayered compressions algorithms has for semantics and other linguistic disciplines.