Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baton Rouge. Two thousand people gather on the floor of L.S.U. Assembly Center, where the Fighting Tigers play basketball. The scoreboard reads DOLE: 0 BUSH: 88. Bush's talent for tortured syntax and mixed cliches comes through when he says, "I'm disturbed when Congress pulls the plug out from under the contras." But he is having a good time -- as is the crowd -- and he dons a "Bushbackers '88" apron to serve platefuls of jambalaya to the faithful...
...week, he seemed depressed and distracted. His press entourage had dwindled. Rally crowds were thin. In a Florida address, the ordinarily aggressive Senator was on the defensive. "Whatever you see on TV ads, Bob Dole is not going to raise taxes," he said, once again employing the third-person syntax that is beginning to sound like self-parody. "Bob Dole has never raised taxes...
HAIG. Despite his syntax-slaughtering demeanor, he knows his stuff. At one debate, all turned to him to clear up confusion about an INF detail...
...original thesis evaluation committee, whichconsisted of Kuno, Whitman and MIT professor KenHale, did not approve the thesis, the topic ofwhich is the theory of functional syntax and itsties to the Japanese language, Whitman said...
Kuno taught this spring Linguistics 104,"Language and the Computer," and Linguistics 113,"Intermediate Syntax." He holds an A.B. and anA.M. degree from Tokyo University. He received aHarvard Ph.D. in 1964. He received a tenured postat Harvard in 1969 and has twiced served aschairman of the Linguistics Department