good news from generative grammarians

[Borsley R D]

If I remember rightly Pesetsky had some critical discussion of the GPSG
approach to undounded depedendies in his dissertation. It seems that he is
one of the few GB/minimalist people who does not try to pretend that there
is nothing outside GB/minimalism.

Bob

Prof. Robert D. Borsley
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Tibor Kiss wrote:

> Hi everybody (as well as John N.),
>
> I just wanted to inform you that HPSG is no longer ignored by famous
> generative grammarians.  Prof. D. Pesetsky (Ferrari P. Ward Professor of
> Linguistics at MIT) writes in his recent (2000) LI monograph (p. 11fn12):
> "The proposal bears interesting similarities to proposals within the G/HPSG
> tradition ... which treat a wide variety of syntactic relations as the
> result of extremely local feature movement."
>
> Now they're talking ...
>
> T.
>
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