{"id":115,"date":"2008-02-16T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-11-19T00:37:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T04:37:30","slug":"what-syntactic-rule-did-i-violate-walts-preference-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"what syntactic rule did I violate Walt&#8217;s preference and?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the point in the semester where I&#8217;m knee deep in teaching syntax, which is good as it&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t often think about but feel that I should know better than I do.  It does, however, have the additional effect of making me notice how my idiolect contains all sorts of examples of constructions that many people judge ungrammatical (most grievously, according to Walt, the dreaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.let.uu.nl\/Uil-OTS\/Lexicon\/zoek.pl?lemma=Resumptive+pronoun&amp;lemmacode=344\">resumptive pronoun<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday, I was with my sister at NYU&#8217;s lovely Bobst Library (now less scary with plexiglass barriers &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.nyu.edu\/experience\/virtualtour\/bobst.jpg\">photo of the amazing internal atrium here<\/a>).  Walt called, and wanted to meet up with us later at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yelp.com%2Fsearch%3Ffind_desc%3Dold%2Btown%26find_loc%3DNew%2BYork%2BNY&amp;ei=2mS3R4CuGJyQesOV5egM&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHGpfxusMUJUrShrbpyM4xzHuwBQ&amp;sig2=Zjma1V1RuCJYNGNej1rt8w\">Old Town<\/a>, but didn&#8217;t recall exactly where it was.  So in the course of explaining to him how to get there, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know that street that the Union Square Petco is on the corner of Broadway and?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So apparently I can extract out of a coordinate construction.\u00a0 Now all I have to is come up with a naturally occurring subjacency violation (cause that&#8217;s the one that loads of papers about have been written) and I can just declare my own dialect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the point in the semester where I&#8217;m knee deep in teaching syntax, which is good as it&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t often think about but feel that I should know better than I do. It does, however, have the additional effect of making me notice how my idiolect contains all sorts of examples of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}