Subject: Re: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:19:25 -0400

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.

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