"Generative" serves them right

[sergi balari]

Dan Parvaz wrote:

> > How about "Chomkyan" (my preferred term)?
>
> In an ever-more-frustrating search for decent nomenclature -- hey, the
> alternative for me is to go back and wrestle with Wh- clauses in ASL --
> here's my two cents. I've been using "west-coast" vs. "east-coast" as tags
> to differentiate LFG, ?PSG, etc. from, you know, "them." Plus it gives me
> more than a little pleasure to subvert Fritz Newmeyer's "east-coast
> formalist"/"west-coast functionalist" distinction.
>
> Okay, so the geographical things doesn't really work, either. I hope I can
> nail this ASL thing with more precision...
>
> -Dan.

And, then, what would you do with peninsular (penisolated?) practitioners?

S.

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