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Hell's Own Syntax Paper, as I now think of it, has taken me all the way back to Ross (1967), a doctoral dissertation from back when generative syntax was shiny and new and dissertation copies were mimeographed if you were lucky.
1. In the acknowledgments, Ross thanks "these girls" who typed this thing for him over and over again. ::wince::
2. He keeps using "Chomsky-adjoin" as a verb. As in, "This constituent is Chomsky-adjoined to the left of the coordinate node." There are many things I can say about Chomsky these days, but at least he is no longer a verb.
October 14 2010, 20:55:54 UTC 1 year ago
And I LOVE those old footnotes and acknowledgments and in-jokes in those early monographs, when they were clearly all just passing shit around before they got it together to, you know, actually publish and things. In the 90s there was a brief period when student papers were sort of bringing it back - I remember seeing a lot of papers thanking Ben & Jerry's and the Barenaked Ladies.
October 15 2010, 01:34:21 UTC 1 year ago