good news from generative grammarians

Dan Parvaz dparvaz at unm.edu
Sat Apr 28 02:42:01 UTC 2001


> One of my professors (a die-hard generative grammar
> guy) said, wrt HPSG (in a computational linguistics
> class), "we presuppose all this stuff."

How does one "presuppose" material antithetical to one's own position
(non-derivationality, etc.)? Do they also presuppose functionalist theories?
:-)

-Dan.



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