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Some arguments against ordered rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Twila Lehmann
Twila Lehmann*
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Indiana University
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Abstract

In line with recent claims, it is argued here that no rules in a transformational grammar should be extrinsically ordered. This claim is examined with respect to four well-known syntactic rules. Arguments which purport to establish that these rules must be extrinsically ordered are shown to be false, and solutions consistent with unordered rules are proposed as alternative explanations to the ordering hypothesis.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , September 1972 , pp. 541 - 550
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Copyright © 1972 by Linguistic Society of America

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