From mcginnis at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 10 19:50:01 2000 From: mcginnis at ucalgary.ca (Martha McGinnis) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:50:01 -0700 Subject: Heidi Harley: Addendum to earlier posting: citation Message-ID: Dear DM-listers - Just a note in re the notion that it's the morphological complexity of latinate verbs that restricts their double-objecting: it's not my idea, nor Alec's, but, as I finally recalled definitely in a blinding flash last night, David Pesetsky's, who invokes Myer's Generalization in exactly this paradigm and for exactly this reason: p. 127-129 of Zero Syntax lay out the basic argument. Apologies to all; my brain sometimes pulls out good ideas it's heard elsewhere a couple of years later and tries to pass them off to me as its own innovations. Bad brain. Hammond's discussion of the consonant clusters in Latinate roots, though, is still worth integrating into the discussion as support for this idea. Look for more on the subject in the near future - best, hh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Heidi Harley (520) 626-3554 Department of Linguistics hharley at u.arizona.edu Douglass 200E Fax: (520) 626-9014 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 mcginnis at ucalgary.ca From mcginnis at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 10 19:50:01 2000 From: mcginnis at ucalgary.ca (Martha McGinnis) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:50:01 -0700 Subject: Heidi Harley: Addendum to earlier posting: citation Message-ID: Dear DM-listers - Just a note in re the notion that it's the morphological complexity of latinate verbs that restricts their double-objecting: it's not my idea, nor Alec's, but, as I finally recalled definitely in a blinding flash last night, David Pesetsky's, who invokes Myer's Generalization in exactly this paradigm and for exactly this reason: p. 127-129 of Zero Syntax lay out the basic argument. Apologies to all; my brain sometimes pulls out good ideas it's heard elsewhere a couple of years later and tries to pass them off to me as its own innovations. Bad brain. Hammond's discussion of the consonant clusters in Latinate roots, though, is still worth integrating into the discussion as support for this idea. Look for more on the subject in the near future - best, hh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Heidi Harley (520) 626-3554 Department of Linguistics hharley at u.arizona.edu Douglass 200E Fax: (520) 626-9014 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 mcginnis at ucalgary.ca