13 Linguistic Representations Assume a strong form of the Grammatical Constraint: – One should prefer a semantic theory that explains otherwise arbitrary generalizations about the syntax and the lexicon…a theorys deviations from efficient encoding must be vigorously justified, for what appears to be an irregular relationship between syntax and semantics may turn out merely to be a bad theory of one or the other (Jackendoff, 1983) Syntactic and Linguistic Semantic Representations are not distinct.
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