On the other hand, a belief of the same (or similar) content, when held by O, a
syntactician researching Wh-movement or a student taking a syntax class, can result in an extremely rich array of inferential possibilities: it can combine with other beliefs to allow O to conclude that linguistic rules are structure dependent, that Move-[alpha] follows the shortest path, that a given sentence would make a nice example for a lecture, or that she should be writing her paper on movement if she intends to get tenured anytime soon.
of both nouns), because for him "it is obvious that such sentences must have been discussed hundreds of times before." I asked a professor of Polish linguistics, a
syntactician, about what Polish grammars say about such structures.
That lore turns out to be wrong--those bragging rights actually belong to Lucien Tesniere, an obscure French
syntactician who died in 1954 at the age of forty-five before his groundbreaking work, The Elements of Structural Syntax, could be published.
Thus, in the following example, the middle term is the concept "
syntactician":
Upon completion of his Ph.D., Haj joined the linguistics faculty at MIT as a
syntactician. He remained at MIT until the late 1980s and made many groundbreaking contributions in syntax.
In her Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Julia Kristeva writes with great insight that "Celine's music is that of a
syntactician; Celine the musician turns out to be a specialist in spoken language, a grammarian who reconciles melody and logic admirably well" (192).
anaphora, and their translated equivalents; any
syntactician reading
But there is no independent reason for thinking that (43) is lexically or syntactically ambiguous; and if possible, I want to avoid saying that a linguistic object [Sigma] can be associated with more than one logical form, if [Sigma] is unambiguous from a
syntactician's point of view.
Setting out both general (and well-substantiated) conclusions, and extensive studies of individual words (complete with the set of relevant citations from the data corpus), this study in fact offers a wealth of information, of interest not only to the diachronic
syntactician but also for students of literary style.
From the point of view of a generative
syntactician working in a more recent framework (as reflected by Culicover 1997, Roberts 1997, Radford 1997, Haegeman -- Gueron 1999), these results may seem disturbing.
On this, every Chomskyan
syntactician nowadays agrees without difficulty.