second thoughts on Nkinis

[Laurence Horn]

>On Dec 23, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>>... as I'm sure Arnold and a couple of other old-timers will recall,
>>it wasn't Raising for Rosenbaum (in the "core grammar" model),
>>but...(wait for it)...IT-REPLACEMENT.
>
>oh dear, so it was.
>
>>  So I guess, in retrospect, it
>>wasn't the *name* "Raising" that was patented, but the process itself.
>
>this is, if anything, even harder to imagine.  but, hey, 2 mills to the
>patent-holder for each time you produce an instance of SSR or SOR, and
>the money mounts up fast!
>
>i guess discoverers of *constraints* are out in the cold here.
>
>arnold

i don't know--just think of all the big bucks Haj Ross must have
raked in over the years from speakers who had to bribe him not to
prosecute them for violating a movement constraint

larry