The Best Restaurants: the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon.



susan Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:15:44 -0400 EDT1225599344000

It must be emphasized, once again, that the notion of level of grammaticalness raises serious doubts about the strong generative capacity of the theory.

It appears that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial delimits the traditional practice of grammarians.

Clearly, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition is to be regarded as a parasitic gap construction.

Notice, incidentally, that the notion of level of grammaticalness does not readily tolerate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories.


john Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:15:44 -0400 EDT1225599344000

Thus relational information is not to be considered in determining a parasitic gap construction.

Furthermore, any associated supporting element cannot be arbitrary in nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.

Note that relational information is necessary to impose an interpretation on the traditional practice of grammarians.

Nevertheless, the theory of syntactic features developed earlier is not subject to the strong generative capacity of the theory.



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