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I wish to thank Greg Carlson, Alec Marantz, and an anonymous reviewer whose comments on an earlier draft helped me to clarify some of my thoughts on several of the issues discussed here. Needless to say, none of them necessarily shares the views expressed below. This review was written while the author was a member of the Department of English, Wayne State University.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00133288.
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Lapointe, S.G. Book review. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 341–370 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154267
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