In a recent paper, Bresnan claims to have shown that the Nuclear Stress Rule applies within the syntactic cycle, rather than to surface structure. Given this result, she claims to have found evidence for the existence of deep structure, for the lexicalist hypothesis, and against McCawley's 1970 analysis of English as a VSO language. B's claims are analysed here in detail. It is shown that her claims are without a basis in fact: the Nuclear Stress Rule is a global rule which applies to surface structure, but it has a global environment referring to other levels. *
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