And Rosta wrote:
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> As for your specific answer, I don't know of any models using licensing
> by analogy.
Langacker's cognitive grammar definitely does this, wouldn't
you say? Fillmore & Atkins in their RISK paper also talk about
seeing analogical licensing in their corpus.
> My students tend to be horrified by the suggestion
> that there isn't a right answer, or that an answer they were previously
> taught might be questionable; they much prefer drawing trees according
> to whatever has been deemed the Right Analysis.
Yes, my students feel the same way, I think. They start doing
labeled trees in the sixth grade(!). By the time they get to me,
they've done tons of phrase markers (mostly with flat structures,
though).
Anyway, when I tell them that some problems don't have a single
solution or even a solution at all, you can tell by their faces
that they're not happy. Oddly enough, it seems to me that the
students with a background in the hard sciences understand this
much better than the ones who come from liberal arts (which is
the bulk of them).
Joe
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