Processing Complexity in Subjacency Violations: The Complex Noun Phrase Constraint
Ivan A. Sag, Philip Hofmeister, Neal Snider · 2007
We may make an intuitive judgment that some linguistic expression is odd or deviant. But we cannot in general know, pretheoretically, whether this deviance is a matter of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, belief, memory limitations, style, etc. [Chomsky (1977:4)] 1