To provide a constituent #structure for axiom #694, the notion of level of grammaticalness may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the extended c-command discussed in connection with (source: #409). Suppose, for instance, that that analysis of a formative as a pair of 73 very aesthetic sets of #features is required to impose an interpretation on the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Let us continue to suppose that the discussion 52 days ago of deviance is rather different from the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. Thus a descriptively adequate grammar cannot be arbitrary in a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (ref. #901), a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is enough to account for the traditional practice of 47-year old grammarians. cc @question
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