From: decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: matthew and theory, supplemental
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:46:11 -0500 (EST)
cher matthieu,
re FG: the declarative and interrogative orders: these are arbitrarily
stipulated? and unrelated?
in other words: any order could be declarative, and any order could be
interrogative, and the orders would not be related in any way?
on my approach, the declarative follows from syntactic structure. the
interrogative is systematically derived in one way and not another. it
seems to me that languages have a limited range of deviations for marked
clause types, and it would be a failure to capture this generalization
that i'm worried about.....
V --
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matthew and theory, supplemental,
Vincent DeCaen, 11/06/2001