出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：Originally published in Glot International 1,9/10, page 9, November/December 1995. A group of about twenty linguists and one philosopher were having lunch at the 1974 Linguistic Institute at UMass, Amherst. I was a graduate student who had, like everyone else, been preoccupied with the issues that divided generative semantics (aka abstract syntax) from interpretive semantics (lexicalist syntax). During a lull in the conversation, I posed a question that had been puzzling me.
