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Re: X-Bar Theory

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, July 26, 2002, 5:17
 --- Marcus Anthony Smith wrote:

> Take a sentence like: > He is fat. > > Append to that the string "John said that " to get > John said that he is fat. > > Keep prefixing "X said that", replacing X by a new name each time. There > is no linguistically interesting limit to how many times you can repeat > that process, meaning that the language mechanism can generate an infinite > number of sentence.
The same thing as: missile anti-missile missile anti-anti-missile missile missile etc. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com