Re: Question on "configuration" and "non-configuration"

Carl Pollard (pollard@ling.ohio-state.edu)
Wed, 13 May 98 16:13:35 EDT

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To Craig's nice summary let me just add that nowadays, for a
nontransformational syntactician to ask whether a language is
configurational is just a quick way of asking whether, in finite
clauses, the subject is sister to V ("nonconfigurational") or not
("configurational").

Carl

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