Adverbs in Lakhota

[Shannon West]

Thank you.  I find GB to be quite overwhelming at times, but I try not to
forget that it is only a theory, and only one way of looking at the data.  .
At some point I'd like to get into a theory that doesn't permit movement,
just to see how that works.  HPSG is one theory I'd like to get to know
better.

I'd be happy to share this paper, with the warning that it is a work in
progress.  I'm not entirely happy with it right now, but deadlines are
deadlines, so it will be handed in and presented on Thursday despite any
concerns I might have.

Shannon

----- Original Message -----
From: ROOD DAVID S <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>
To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
Sent: December 14, 1999 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Adverbs in Lakhota


> Dear Shannon,
> Thanks for your last clarification and good luck with the paper.
> I would be very much interested in reading it if you care to share it.  I
> have a lot of respect for the kinds of things that GB can do -- I think
> that finding "uniform" mechanics for a variety of grammatical phenomena is
> probably on the way to finding a model for how the brain works.  But the
> details are nevertheless overwhelming, and there are many times when
> phenomena seem to be forced into an inapporpriate version of the model.
> So I'm glad people like you are working with the model AND interesting
> languages and structures -- that's the way science advances.
> Best wishes,
> David
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> Campus Box 295
> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> USA
> rood at colorado.edu
>
>