LINGUIST List 2.21

Friday, 25 Jan 1991

Disc: CSC

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1. Ellen Prince, Re: CSC
2. , Not and stay sane, they can't.
3. , Re: CSC

as long as we're pushing back the date for nonsyntactic accounts of the
coordinate structure constraint and violations thereof, may i point out
susumu kuno's (1976) 'subject, theme, and the speaker's empathy' in li's
subject and topic (academic press)?

Ref: LINGUIST 2.13 (3).
 John Goldsmith <gldsmthsapir.uchicago.edu> says:
 >I ... link this construction to one studied some years back by Lawler,
 >the one involved in answers such as "Not and stay sane, they can't"
 >to questions such as "Can linguists study negation?".

The paper he refers to is entitled "Ample Negatives", and appeared in
CLS 10 in 1974. The Q-A turn sequence he cites is the sentence that
launched *my* paper.

anyone interested in non-syntactic explanations for the CSC, as well
as arguments against movement rules, might also want to take a look
at my 1974 Univ. of Texas at Austin dissertation - "The
Role of Topic and Comment in Linguistic Theory", published in
the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series in 1988.
Jeanette Gundel, Univ. of Minnesota