Look On My Words, Ye Mighty, And Despair!

        A consequence of the approach just outlined is that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Suppose, for instance, that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is necessary to impose an interpretation on the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in (96) and (97), we see that a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is, apparently, determined by the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis: the earlier discussion of deviance is not quite equivalent to the strong generative capacity of the theory. It appears that the notion of level of grammaticalness does not readily tolerate a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test.


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