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Download full textGazdar, Gerald – 1976
This is a tongue-in-cheek rendering of an imaginary linguist's attempt to prove that a grammatical rule is not in fact optional, but conditioned. Through manipulation of the data, use of computers, etc., he succeeds in "proving" this. He also "proves" that this conditioning is contextual; that the rule which exhibits it is…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Graphs
