From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Aug 22 12:23:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 22 Aug 2001 19:23:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 83788 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 19:20:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2001 19:20:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 19:20:32 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20655; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8405BD.9000804@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:19:25 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan And Rosta wrote: ># [...] French, where >#nouns cannot serve the purposes of noun phrases (a raw noun without >#a determiner is ungrammatical). Can you spell this out a little more? > Nowadays those French NPs would be analysed as DPs, determiner > phrases. How does that help? Raw determiners are no more grammatical than raw nouns. > [E]ndocentricity is so overwhelming prevalent and so much more > restrictive than exocentricity that syntacticians take endocentricity > to be an essential feature of natlang syntax. Fair enough. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel