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

At 11:27 am -0700 18/9/00, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
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>Generative Grammar may have had its origins in work on English, but to say
>that
>*current* Chomskyan linguistics is based solely on English misrepresents the
>state of the art.  Since the early 80s, a great deal of work has been done on
>other languages, leading to considerable enrichment of the theory.
Glad to hear it.....

At 11:39 am -0700 18/9/00, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
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>Transformational Grammar is dead, killed by Minimalism.
  ...and even happier to hear that  :)

It's difficult enough trying to keep up with changing technology - and I
have to because of my work - so I fear I'm rather behind with current
thinking in linguistics    :=(

Ray.





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