End of ADS-L Digest - 9 Mar 1996 to 10 Mar 1996 *********************************************** There are 6 messages totalling 136 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. 2. drouth etc. (4) 3. ADS session at M/MLA, 2nd call for abstract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 03:48:59 -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 > >