Fw: empty verbs

[Georgia]

Tibor writes:

> So in my view, if you eliminate a single trace in favour of a single
> construction, you have gained nothing. But you haven't lost either.
However,
> if you replace a single trace by a 100 constructions, the gain is -99, and
> that's a loss.

My question is, how do you know what to count as "a single trace"?
Technically, GKPS had almost as many traces as it had unslashed
categories--an astronomical number (Geoff Pullum once computed it).

Georgia