Edward Gibson

There's a lexical copying rule such that the word will or the word can, these auxiliary verbs, they just have two forms. And one of them is the declarative and one of them is the interrogative. And you basically have the declarative one and, oh, I form the interrogative or I can form one from the other. It doesn't matter which direction you go.

And I just have a new entry, which has the same meaning, which has a slightly different argument structure. Argument structure is just a fancy word for the ordering of the words. And so if I say, you know, it was the dog's two dogs can or will enter the room, there's two forms of will.

And I just have a new entry, which has the same meaning, which has a slightly different argument structure. Argument structure is just a fancy word for the ordering of the words. And so if I say, you know, it was the dog's two dogs can or will enter the room, there's two forms of will.

And I just have a new entry, which has the same meaning, which has a slightly different argument structure. Argument structure is just a fancy word for the ordering of the words. And so if I say, you know, it was the dog's two dogs can or will enter the room, there's two forms of will.

One is will declarative, and then, okay, I've got my subject to the left, it comes before me, and the verb comes after me in that one. And then the will interrogative, it's like, oh, I go first. Interrogative, will is first, and then I have the subject immediately after, and then the verb after that.

One is will declarative, and then, okay, I've got my subject to the left, it comes before me, and the verb comes after me in that one. And then the will interrogative, it's like, oh, I go first. Interrogative, will is first, and then I have the subject immediately after, and then the verb after that.

One is will declarative, and then, okay, I've got my subject to the left, it comes before me, and the verb comes after me in that one. And then the will interrogative, it's like, oh, I go first. Interrogative, will is first, and then I have the subject immediately after, and then the verb after that.

And so you can just generate from one of those words another word with a slightly different argument structure, with different ordering,

And so you can just generate from one of those words another word with a slightly different argument structure, with different ordering,

And so you can just generate from one of those words another word with a slightly different argument structure, with different ordering,

Yeah, but that's the lexical copying is similar. So then we do lexical copying for that same idea that maybe the declarative is the source and then we can copy it. And so an advantage is Well, there's multiple advantages of the lexical copying story. It's not my story.

Yeah, but that's the lexical copying is similar. So then we do lexical copying for that same idea that maybe the declarative is the source and then we can copy it. And so an advantage is Well, there's multiple advantages of the lexical copying story. It's not my story.

Yeah, but that's the lexical copying is similar. So then we do lexical copying for that same idea that maybe the declarative is the source and then we can copy it. And so an advantage is Well, there's multiple advantages of the lexical copying story. It's not my story.

This is like Ivan Sog, linguists, a bunch of linguists have been proposing these stories as well, you know, in tandem with the movement story. Okay, you know, Ivan Sog died a while ago, but he was one of the proponents of the non-movement of the lexical copying story. And so that is that a great advantage is, well...

This is like Ivan Sog, linguists, a bunch of linguists have been proposing these stories as well, you know, in tandem with the movement story. Okay, you know, Ivan Sog died a while ago, but he was one of the proponents of the non-movement of the lexical copying story. And so that is that a great advantage is, well...

This is like Ivan Sog, linguists, a bunch of linguists have been proposing these stories as well, you know, in tandem with the movement story. Okay, you know, Ivan Sog died a while ago, but he was one of the proponents of the non-movement of the lexical copying story. And so that is that a great advantage is, well...

Chomsky, really famously in 1971, showed that the movement story leads to learnability problems. It leads to problems for how language is learned. It's really, really hard to figure out what the underlying structure of a language is if you have both phrase structure and movement. It's really hard to figure out what came from what. There's a lot of possibilities there.

Chomsky, really famously in 1971, showed that the movement story leads to learnability problems. It leads to problems for how language is learned. It's really, really hard to figure out what the underlying structure of a language is if you have both phrase structure and movement. It's really hard to figure out what came from what. There's a lot of possibilities there.

Chomsky, really famously in 1971, showed that the movement story leads to learnability problems. It leads to problems for how language is learned. It's really, really hard to figure out what the underlying structure of a language is if you have both phrase structure and movement. It's really hard to figure out what came from what. There's a lot of possibilities there.

If you don't have that problem, the learning problem gets a lot easier.