Re: Right-Branching vs. Left-Branching
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 21:45 |
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On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Rob Haden wrote:
> LOL. I'm hardly a professional linguist (!), but it seems that
> Chomsky has
> added a lot of techno-jumbo (another new word/phrase?) to that science.
Perhaps. Maybe it was in need of some jargon; his early stuff (e.g.
_Syntactic Structures_, 1957) is still highly regarded for its
explicitness and rigor, something which syntax had been lacking.
Dirk
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