Strong generative capacity, weak generative capacity, and modern linguistic theories
Robert C. Berwick · 1984
this paper. The basic points to be made are these: Since modern transformational grammars do not contain the powerful deletion rules available in the Aspects theory and need not explicitly reconstruct an underlying deep structure, they are not immediately subject to the Peters and Ritchie results. Thus the fears recently advanced by Bresnan and Kaplan (1982: xli-xlii) or Johnson-Laird (1983: 280) simply do not hold