from a review...

Ivan A. Sag sag at csli.stanford.edu
Wed Apr 10 05:00:59 UTC 2002


FYI.

This is from Mario Montalbetti's (LINGUIST List) review
of Zagona (2002) The Syntax of Spanish:

[...]

A word to pre-empt inevitable attacks. It is very likely that the native
speaker of Spanish will object to some grammaticality judgments.  This is only
natural, given the ample dialectal diversity in Spanish. To get stuck here
would be a pity. First, because as Chomsky (1995) has pointed out in his
(in)famous fn7 on p203, there is no grammaticality. And second, because it
would be yet another unfortunate case of not seeing the woods because of the
trees. In any case, I expect judgment differences throughout the book to be
minimal.

[...]

Dang! So how do I evaluate it?...

-Ivan



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