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‘Global Rules’: A Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

C. L. Baker  and
Michael K. Brame
C. L. Baker
Affiliation:
University of Texas
Michael K. Brame
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Abstract

Lakoff 1970 offers seven sets of data which he believes furnish support for revising current models of syntactic description in such a way as to allow global rules, i.e. rules that make reference to more than a single point in a derivation. A close examination of these data reveals that only two sets cannot be given an adequate treatment within the framework sketched in Chomsky 1965; and even these two sets do not warrant the wide-ranging extension of current syntactic theory which L proposes. Furthermore, L's seven arguments, even if they were accepted, would furnish no support for his assertions concerning the nature of semantic representation.*

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Language , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 51 - 75
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Copyright © Linguistic Society of America 1972

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This paper was written while both authors were at the University of Texas, Austin, and was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Grant GS-2468. We are indebted to Joan Bresnan and Lauri Karttunen for a number of helpful criticisms of a preliminary draft; in acknowledging their aid, we do not wish to imply that they agree with anything in the paper. Responsibility for any errors of fact or interpretation of course rests entirely with us.

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