Rich,<br><br>You are posting to the wrong thread. That angle on this subject was covered well in the previous thread.<br><br>Simple "rights" and "wrongs" just fail to capture it.<br><br>Far
from being "wrong" on the subject, I doubt many generative grammarians
have even contemplated the idea grammar might be necessarily incomplete.
Nor have many corpus linguists.<br>
<br>Nobody's "right" or "wrong" on this one. It simply hasn't been looked at.<br><br>A model from this point of view will still need to be generative. That is its great advantage. Corpus linguistics has worked well as a model of lexicon. It is just we have lacked workable way of reconciling syntax. This tells us it does not need to be an either/or between lexical and syntactic perspectives of language. We can have both (because syntax is subjective on context.)
<br><br>Instead of bandying about "rights" and "wrongs", I think both "sides" need to look at this and find what common ground they can from a new perspective.<br><br>-Rob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Cooper</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich@englishlogickernel.com">Rich@englishlogickernel.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">There are still Chomskyans on the prowl
though:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Atoms-Language-Minds-Hidden-Grammar/dp/019860632X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3873164-6759834?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189095805&sr=8-1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.amazon.com/Atoms-Language-Minds-Hidden-Grammar/dp/019860632X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3873164-6759834?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189095805&sr=8-1</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">-Rich</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br>