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The Strict Order Fallacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Andreas Koutsoudas
Andreas Koutsoudas*
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Indiana University
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Abstract

The question considered here is the correctness of the assumption that transformational rules are extrinsically ordered. One type of argument that has frequently been given in support of this assumption is shown to be invalid: it shows that if the rules in question are to be extrinsically ordered, they must be ordered in some particular way, but it fails to show that the facts cannot be accounted for without imposing extrinsic order on these rules. Thus the assumption that rules are not extrinsically ordered is found to be viable.1

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 88 - 96
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Copyright © Linguistic Society of America 1972

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