| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
An item in a local newspaper:
Dr. Noam Chomsky, professor linguistics and philosophy at the
Masschusetts Institute of Technology, will lecture on "Language and
Society" at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 in the Dana Center at Saint Anselm
College.
Free admission. It's in Goffstown, NH, immediately west of Manchester.
Vague directions (from the south) - either Rt 93 or Everett Turnpike
(sort of Rt. 3) to 101/114 west. Go straight through 1st set of lights
(continuing on Rt. 114 (101 goes left)), and through one more set. At
the next set of lights (1 mile later) turn right on St. Anselm Drive -
the college is 1/2 mile or more on the right. I think Dana Center is
toward the back.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 833.1 | The Chomskybot | MKOTS3::TINIUS | It's always something. | Wed Mar 27 1996 09:44 | 18 |
Take a look at http://www.ling.lsa.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl to see the Chomskybot... Here's a sample: Of course, the earlier discussion of deviance is, apparently, determined by the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, relational information cannot be arbitrary in nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. Let us continue to suppose that the systematic use of complex symbols is unspecified with respect to the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. Analogously, a descriptively adequate grammar is to be regarded as irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. On the other hand, the descriptive power of the base component is not to be considered in determining an abstract underlying order. -stephen | |||||
| 833.2 | Uh! | KEEF::PETERS | Thu Mar 28 1996 01:48 | 3 | |
re .1 Dave Barry couldn't have put it better himself!
-Steve
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