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Re: Right-Branching vs. Left-Branching

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 21:45
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 -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu "I believe that phonology is superior to music. It is more variable and its pecuniary possibilities are far greater." - Erik Satie