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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Singular/ Plural determiners in coordinate NPs
Message-ID: <573@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 11:14:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.573
Posted: Thu Jul 25 11:14:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 02:22:32 EDT
References: <177@bcsaic.UUCP> <2188@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Keywords: linguistics syntax noun phrases determiners
Summary: 

In article <2188@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>
>You bet something semanticky is going on here.  It's called real language. :-)
>Now, the main problem with what you're trying to do with the "structure" is
>that the traditional transformation representation of structure is totally
>inadequate to describe what's really going on inside someone's head.  There
>is no way to differentiate between an item's form and its function, between
>what it looks like and how it is being used.
>
	This is why I prefer non-transformational approaches to
grammer, such a Simon K. Dik's Relational Grammer. Unfortunately,
even recent textbooks are still enamored with Chomsky and continue
to present Transformational Grammer as the only approach, completely
ignoring the other, more natural forms.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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