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Why did I by all means got you to this idea? O.o

There was a link called "Spam me" on your list, and I followed it, silly!

Does this comment count as one of the 1000?

I like this idea. I'm working for another 2 hours, so I will try and randomly drop in with some interesting facts for you.

Good stuff. :)

Tell all your friends to drop by too, 1000 comments is quite a challenge!

Is this really a wise idea? OK then...

Author: Marc Richards
Title: Object Shift and Scrambling in North and West Germanic: A Case Study in Symmetrical Syntax

This thesis examines the well-known phenomena of (Germanic) Object Shift
and Scrambling from the perspective of a strictly minimalist, purely
symmetrical, phase-cyclic syntax, arguing that their characteristic
shape-conserving property derives straightforwardly from the fundamental
'symmetry-breaking' strategies that ensure the linearization of such a system.

Chapter Two offers a unified analysis of Object Shift and Scrambling as
parametrically determined variants of a single, primitive, head-complement
ordering parameter - a version of Kayne's LCA operative at the syntax-PF
interface. The verb-object order-preservation effect known as Holmberg's
Generalization is immediately implied. The obligatory nature of Object
Shift with weak pronouns is then shown to provide direct evidence that the
phase boundaries defined by Chomsky's Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC)
delimit a phonological as well as syntactic unit.

In Chapter Three, I argue that the coexistence of order-preserving and
order-permuting movement types in a single grammar lends further support to
Chomsky's phases (as linearization domains), and indicates the presence of
a defective v phase-head selecting passive/unaccusative VPs. I make the
simple observation that those movement types that invert basic order (e.g.
passivization, wh-movement) are also those that target a position outside
the original phase, whereas shape-conserving movement (OS/Scrambling) is
'short distance', i.e. phase-internal. This generalization, which I reduce
to the periodic 'forgetting' of derivational information under the PIC,
entails that cyclic linearization proceeds in a manner diametrically
opposed to the 'resetting' algorithm of Fox & Pesetsky (2003 et seq.). I
offer some modifications to Chomsky's phase theory that remove the
weak/strong phase distinction and yield a unified, nonstipulative,
lexical-array-based reformulation of the PIC. Spec-v now emerges as the
only possible merge-site for (there-type) expletives in the
Probe-Goal-Agree system. This low merge-site for expletives solves a number
of technical, conceptual and empirical problems faced by standard
(Merge-TP) approaches and allows a superior analysis of Transitive
Expletive Constructions.

Chapter Four investigates the role of Case theory in the proposed account
of linear shape effects. I argue that Case features assume a central
importance at the syntax-PF interface in regulating the timing of
Transfer/Spell-Out, so that an active element is locally identified as
nonfinal for PF/linearization purposes. The predicted interplay between
movement, shape, and phasal Spell-Out accounts for all the empirical facts
observed across the Germanic paradigm. Finally, to support the case for
Case still further, a defence is mounted for the indispensability of Case
features in the computation of LF. On the basis of the vP-analysis of
expletives proposed in Chapter Three and a strong form of the activeness
hypothesis, I propose a novel, unified analysis of Person-Case and
definiteness restrictions that derives and explains the previously poorly
understood commonalities in behaviour between expletives and (Icelandic)
quirky case. Defective intervention (and the Match/Agree distinction) is
eliminated, dissolving into a heterogeneous range of phenomena that reduce,
variously, to PIC effects, Agree-(in)activeness, the timing of
optional-EPP-driven movement, and, in the case of Match-driven Move and
multiple Agree, a parametrized approach to phi-completeness.

A much simpler, neater system emerges, one in which nonlexical
macroparameters (such as the proposed head-directionality parameter) find a
natural home as interface desymmetrization strategies that dispose of
superfluous and illegible (symmetric) syntactic information.

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Fascinating!

Here's a few entries in the Cross-Dialectal Comprehension Natural Misunderstandings database:

A: You've got to leave!
B: Got a leaf?
A: No! Not got a leaf! Got to leave!


A: Whaddaya think I would buy?
B & C hear: Whaddaya think God would buy?


A: I baked her a pie.
B: I beg to reply?


A: (fixing breakfast) Can I pour us both juice?
B: What's a spoke juice?


A: You could have acetate sheets that flop over each of them.
B hears: You could ask the cheese to flop over each of them.


A: Did you play the Rolling Stones?
B: Yeah, "Gimme Shelter", before you got here.
A: That's great!
B: Dire Straits? Yeah, I played "Sultans of Swing".

reminds me of my friend the other day suggesting i should be a loof, the world needs more loofs!

Ha ha...I'll add to it, did you know that St Johns Beacon is the highest building in Liverpool.

No, I didn't know that!

Voted Britain's best chat-up line: Well here I am! What are your other two wishes? OR Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk past again

You are not doing so well yet are you? I've finished work now. Time for bed :)

No, not yet. Get your friends to comment!

Okay I am still up. I have pistachio nuts on my desk. Ner ner ner ner ner

& your point is?

When I was a kid I wanted to be a cameraman for the BBC. And then I went to a careers type thing and was made to feel stupid by a bloke from the BBC so I was somewhat put off.

I'll make my own films one day, then write a snotty letter telling them how much raw talent they missed out on!

Hurrah!

Cool! If you make your own films, do it in a funky-retro way, and use Super 8 like me. :)

Diesel or electric... discuss.

:)

Diesel, 'cos it makes more thrash and I like noise.

Gosh, a 1000? Does LJ have a limit of a 1000 comments?

The limit is 5000!

Um, why do the comments on here have +7 hours, + 22 hours or whatever on them next to the commenter's name?

I don't know, they've started doing that instead of time-stamping them.

Ive been sent to stalk you :-D Hello

Hello. Stalk away. :)

Have another comment. :)

Thanks. :)

did you set yourself a time limit for the 1000 entries to this ?? or are you quiet happy to accept late entries ?
I hope so, or I'd feel a bit stupid writing here!

No time limit, it takes as long as it takes! I just want 1000 comments!

Squeeeeeee!

I came to help you meet your target.
How are you doing tonight ?

I'm OK, thanks. :)

Squeak!

How many comments are you up to now?

That's about 90 now, I think.

Are you having a decent day?

Yes, thank you. :)

What time is it over there?

09.19.

This is fun!

Yes, it is.

Say hi to gwendraith for me! ;D

Will do. :)