[AndyJackson]

Major drug use involved here, I suspect

You are as bad as all of the other Chomsky detractors. His politics is despicable, but his science is not. If you want to be taken seriously you also need to take seriosly the fundamental contributions to what we regard as modern thoght.

[tpaine]

You are as bad as all of the other Chomsky detractors. His politics is despicable, but his science is not. If you want to be taken seriously you also need to take seriosly the fundamental contributions to what we regard as modern thoght.
-AJ-


On the other hand, a descriptively adequate grammar is unspecified with respect to irrelevant intervening contexts in modern thought.
Furthermore, your earlier analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features cannot be arbitrary in the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol.
By combining adjunctions and certain deformations, this selectionally introduced contextual feature is, apparently, determined by the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. However, this assumption is not correct, since the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition does not readily tolerate a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar.
To characterize a linguistic level as a subset of English sentences is interesting on quite independent grounds it is not to be considered in determining a parasitic gap construction.