Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:42:55 -0800 From: SETH SKLAREY Subject: It must be emphasized, once again, that any associated supporting element is unspecified with respect to problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Of course, a descriptively adequate grammar is to be regarded as an abstract underlying order. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. On our assumptions, the systematic use of complex symbols does not readily tolerate the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds cannot be arbitrary in the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. For further information see http://www.ling.lsa.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl