On two recent attempts to show that English is not a CFL

Abstract

this paper, I shall briefly examine the claims they make. My conclusion with regard to each is that they fail to make their casd because closer attention reveals that their empirical claims about English are incorrect. Moreover, both arguments concern anaphora, and both fail in ways related to that concern

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