Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

Corollary is the word he's looking for rather than
exception

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-06-07 01:27, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > I wanted to
> > know if you could refute one way or another what I
> claimed all along,
> > namely that GL in the classical theory is a rule
> with an exception,
> > not whether you could couch classical GL in other
> terms.
>
> No, "classical" GL is not a rule with an exception.
> No linguists uses
> the word "exception" in this way. The _blocking
> environment_ is part of
> the original formulation of GL, in itself fully
> regular, so the outcome
> of GL remains predictable. Many rules include
> statements about the
> environment in which they _don't apply_. This only
> means that they are
> not completely unconditional.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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