Re: USAGE: Garden paths

J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> I never produce those kinds of sentences either.  But I fail to produce them for
> parsing reasons, not because they're ruled out by the grammar.
It seems to me that this statement kicks the ball through your own goalposts.
If you cannot generate these sentences, it is because the "outward bound"
grammar fails to generate them.  Unless you think parsing is involved
during production as well as during comprehension?

> Again, I think
> you're missing my point:  Garden path sentences demonstrate that *acceptability*
> and *grammaticality* are two entirely different things!  A sentence can be
> unacceptable without being ungrammatical.
And sentences can be acceptable while ungrammatical, too.

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