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... question.3 What interests us here is that , just as not all the sentences which the grammar generates are equally gram- matical , so not all the sentences which it does not generate are equally un- grammatical . Indeed , it is not ...
... question.3 What interests us here is that , just as not all the sentences which the grammar generates are equally gram- matical , so not all the sentences which it does not generate are equally un- grammatical . Indeed , it is not ...
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... question ; the fewer such unwanted consequences the revised rule generates , the more grammatical is the sentence in question . As examples to work with , we take the two lines he danced his did , from Cummings ' " Anyone lived in a ...
... question ; the fewer such unwanted consequences the revised rule generates , the more grammatical is the sentence in question . As examples to work with , we take the two lines he danced his did , from Cummings ' " Anyone lived in a ...
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... question of truthfulness does not apply in regard to the subject matter of a work of poetry , nor does it even make sense . Even if we posed the question and answered it positively or negatively as the case may be , the question has no ...
... question of truthfulness does not apply in regard to the subject matter of a work of poetry , nor does it even make sense . Even if we posed the question and answered it positively or negatively as the case may be , the question has no ...
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Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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