Re: linguistic dogma

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From: Jacques Guy
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 00:40

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hand@tam2000.tamu.edu (Michael Hand) writes:


>Huh?  Center-embedding produces intuitively *unacceptable* sentences 
>pretty fast, as your example shows.  Its unacceptability is a datum.
>Nonetheless, it is as grammatical as all get-out.  What's been 
>"fabricated" here?

"It is grammatical" has been fabricated.

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Subject: Re: linguistic dogma
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