15.3277, Disc: Re: 15.3231, Disc: Deep Structure/Initial PP

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Subject: 15.3277, Disc: Re: 15.3231, Disc: Deep Structure/Initial PP

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Date: 22-Nov-2004
From: Philip Carr < philip.carr at univ-montp3.fr >
Subject: Re: 15.3231, Disc: Deep Structure/Initial PP



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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:27:19
From: Philip Carr < philip.carr at univ-montp3.fr >
Subject: Re: 15.3231, Disc: Deep Structure/Initial PP


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

Other issues in this discussion:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-3263.html
http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-3272.html

Even back in the days when Deep and Surface Structure were postulated,
there was an explicit retreat, connected with the ill-fated Derivational
Theory of Complexity, from assuming that postulated analyses were taken to
be analyses of on-line mental operations. You can see that as early as
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965).

Still, it's interesting to see how talk of operations or processes
persists today, even if it's interpreted, somehow, in an instrumentalist
way. If one adopts a computational theory of mind, how can one avoid
postulating mental processes/operations?

Phil Carr




Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Syntax





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