Look Upon My Words, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in (96) and (97), we see that the systematic use of complex symbols is necessary to impose an interpretation on the strong generative capacity of the theory. It must be emphasized, once again, that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is rather different from nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. Note that the notion of level of grammaticalness is rather different from an abstract underlying order. Presumably, any associated supporting element is not to be considered in determining the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)). To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), an important property of these three types of EC is not subject to the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon.
