good news from generative grammarians

[Ivan A. Sag]

Hi Tibor and the Bobs,

> 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.

Yes, I quite agree. He sat in on the class Gert Webelhuth and I gave at the
1999 Linguistic Institute in Urbana (and I his). He says he has included a
section on HPSG in one of his regular grad courses in an effort to make MIT
students more aware of other frameworks. He'll be here at Stanford to give a
colloquium in a few weeks, also.

-Ivan

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>
> Bob
>
> Prof. Robert D. Borsley
> Department of Language and Linguistics
> University of Essex
> Wivenhoe Park
> COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ, UK
>
> rborsley at essex.ac.uk
> tel: +44 1206 873762
> fax: +44 1206 872198
> http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~rborsley
>
> 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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> > Prof. Dr. Tibor Kiss -- Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut
> > Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum
> > +49-234-3225114 // +49-177-7468265 // +49-234-3214137 (fax)
> > You come here, you must think about minimalism
> >
>