Re: Chomsky's "Minimalist" paper

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From: Eric Schiller
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:01

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Don't know what you mean. I checked the data with LOTS of native
speakers, and I believe that Fowler did too. Maybe you should
get together with Kartik and invent some normative Russian that
no one speaks. Really, people do use the construction. it is
not the invention of a linguist. As I noted in one of my
posts, not ALL speakers accept it, but then that is not
the point. A linguistic theory must at least account for
all attested data (the old descriptive adequacy). This
is data we syntacticians must wrestle with, as Fowler did
in his dissertation.

Eric Schiller
University of Chicago

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