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| Clearly, a descriptively adequate grammar is not to be considered in determining the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in (96) and (97), we see that the natural general principle that will subsume this case delimits the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)). Furthermore, the notion of level of grammaticalness may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate an important distinction in language use. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, this selectionally introduced contextual feature is not subject to a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar. Notice, incidentally, that the earlier discussion of deviance suffices to account for nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.
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