Was that he was guilty obvious?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:18 PM -0500 1/12/11, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Ah, Haj Ross's "Internal S over NP Constraint".  Remember it (pretty)
>well.  Lots o' variation in class when I used to teach syntax, and I
>could never decide, but it's worse for me than the for-to counterpart
>
Oops.  Just reread this and realize I need to take back my comment
about remembering it.  It is, for those remembering their 60s-style
syntax, not "Internal S over NP" but "Internal NP over S", i.e.
internal clausal noun phrases, that run up against the constraint
discussed by Ross (and Kuno) in the late 60s.

LH

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