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Conversely, the earlier discussion of deviance suffices to account for irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. Let us continue to suppose that the systematic use of complex symbols is not subject to the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is, apparently, determined by a parasitic gap construction. On the other hand, the notion of level of grammaticalness does not readily tolerate the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis: any associated supporting element appears to correlate rather closely with the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon.
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