User talk:AndrewCarnie

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Hey Andrew, welcome to Wikipedia! Irish syntax is waiting for you! ;-) User:Angr 10:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC) (Tonio)

[edit] Transformational grammar

Hi, I agree that the Transformational grammar article is a bit of a mess, and some of it needs to go over to Generative grammar/Generative linguistics. I was wondering what you thought on a terminological question. Do you think that anything post-LGB is not properly called transformational grammar and should be kept off the article, or do you think it can be used as a cover term for Chomskian syntax from the 50s to the present? Thanks Cadr 11:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caron

There is an ongoing dispute on the talk page about whether it should be called caron or háček/hacek. It has been suggested that professional linguists' advice would be beneficial. Would you please consider participating in the vote?--85.70.5.66 23:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thematic Relations and Theta Roles

I found myself on the Thematic "Role" article a week ago, sighing with frustration at the lack of clarity, confusion, and insistence from probably well meaning people who nonetheless obviously didn't know quite what they were talking about that Theta Roles and Thematic Relations should be combined in one article. At the time I wrote a few comments in the hopes of clarifying the issue, actually drawing from your Syntax text. I was quite pleasantly surprised when I checked out the Theta Roles discussion and noticed that you had yourself already advised against the merger. However, sadly, they have disregarded both our comments and gone ahead with the merger. I don't know what good it will do, but I figured I'd let you know that it had been done nonetheless. You speak with a good deal more authority than I, but a lowly Linguistics BA, though whether said authority will be respected or even recognized is another matter. I think a solution might be to make a new article for Thematic Relations, as that currently does not have an article which it redirects to, and, upon having the boundaries completed established, invite the theta roles article to reform accordingly. 128.239.219.107 01:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)