from Chris Kennedy

[Liz Coppock]

I feel very sheepish to have misrepresented Chris
Kennedy.  I wish I could retract "die-hard generative
grammar guy" -- it was a misuse of "generative
grammar," and a depiction of him that fails to capture
his characteristic open-mindedness, for an
understatement.

Instead of making an insult when he said "we
presuppose all this stuff" (as I first thought), Chris
was making a point:  there must be some way to
represent features in order for operations on features
to work.

(To illustrate, as an experiment in class, once, he
drew an AVM with a feature: BAR-LEVEL, whose values
could be things like "head," "intermediate," or
"maximal."  This caused (well, aided) the realization
in me that such a representation might exist, which
makes a guy wonder how to compare the frameworks.)

Apologies again for my terrible wording and my
inadvertent insults, but thanks for all your responses
so far.  I'm learning a lot.

Liz


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