15.3272, Disc: Re: Linguist 15.3231: Deep Structure/Initial PP

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Subject: 15.3272, Disc: Re: Linguist 15.3231: Deep Structure/Initial PP

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Date: 21-Nov-2004
From: Pius ten Hacken < P.Ten-Hacken at swansea.ac.uk >
Subject: Re: Linguist 15.3231: Deep Structure/Initial PP



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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:50:10
From: Pius ten Hacken < P.Ten-Hacken at swansea.ac.uk >
Subject: Re: Linguist 15.3231: Deep Structure/Initial PP


Re: Linguist 15.3231 (http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-3231.html)


Two obvious remarks any Chomskyan linguist would make in this respect are:

1. Phrase structure rules and transformations are meant to describe
the grammatical competence of a speaker, not the processes of
production or interpretation of linguistic performance.

2. Since the early 1980s, individual rewrite rules such as S --> NP
VP are no longer state-of-the-art.

For this reason, the problems mentioned by John Harris do not really
arise in Chomskyan linguistics.

Pius ten Hacken
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Dr Pius ten Hacken
French Department, University of Wales Swansea
p.ten-hacken at swan.ac.uk
http://www.swan.ac.uk/french/web-content/staff/p-ten-hacken.html




Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Syntax





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