Discussion Details
| Title: | Re: 15.3231, Disc: Deep Structure/Initial PP |
| Submitter: | Philip Carr |
| Description: | Even back in the days when Deep and Surface Structure were postulated,
there was an explicit retreat, connected with the ill-fated Derivational Theory of Complexity, from assuming that postulated analyses were taken to be analyses of on-line mental operations. You can see that as early as Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965). Still, it's interesting to see how talk of operations or processes persists today, even if it's interpreted, somehow, in an instrumentalist way. If one adopts a computational theory of mind, how can one avoid postulating mental processes/operations? Phil Carr |
| Date Posted: | 22-Nov-2004 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Linguistic Theories
Syntax |
| LL Issue: | 15.3277 |
| Posted: | 22-Nov-2004 |
