Re: theory (was: Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 4:47 pm -0400 16/9/00, John Cowan wrote:
> >On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, what's concerned me the Chomskians & the 'deep structure' brigade is
> >> that all their theorizing seems to derive from English.
> >
> >Cynically expressed (bow-wow) as "If it's true in English, Italian, and
> >Hebrew, it's universal."
> >
> >But in fact I think this complaint is obsolete.
>
> I hope you're right.  But I still remain skeptical of the transformational
> grammar approach.
Transformational Grammar is dead, killed by Minimalism.

Matt.