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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Singular/ Plural determiners in coordinate NPs
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 02:32:21 EDT
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Keywords: linguistics syntax noun phrases determiners

Those who have been following this discussion might enjoy a look at Jerry
Sadock's article "The Necessary Overlapping of Grammatical Components" in
the CLS 19 Parassession (Interplay of Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax).
One of his main examples is number agreement.  He argues throughout the article
that the traditional hard walls between components of a grammar need more
'give', and cites examples of phenomena that are sometimes controlled from
one domain and sometimes another.  Number agreement is offered as an overlap
of syntax and semantics.  
	This is not actually too far from Larry Wall's position as recently
posted, but without Wall's fierce anti-formalist dismissal.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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