attractions and distractions

Andrew Carnie carnie at U.Arizona.EDU
Fri Jun 25 21:21:09 UTC 2004


Hi Emily,

> level, rather than, as you put it "tell[ing] them that they
> are wrong and idiots and their theory is crap."

I'm cc:ing the whole list here just so everyone is clear -- I haven't read
your review (but will), so this was not an attack on you personally, but
upon a style of scholarly interchange that is indemic to our field (and
by NO means is it limited to practitioners of HPSG).

Best,

AC




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