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Mirror Image Rules I: Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Ronald W. Langacker
Ronald W. Langacker*
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University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

The thesis of this paper is that a ‘mirror image’ convention should be incorporated into linguistic metatheory. This convention may be interpreted as a notational device; it serves to collapse rules that are significantly similar in that they are mirror images of one another, in a sense that can be made fairly precise. Part I gives a preliminary formulation of the convention and discusses syntactic evidence; Part II, to be published in Lg. 45:4, will deal with lexical and phonological evidence.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1969 , pp. 575 - 598
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Copyright © 1969 Linguistic Society of America

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