ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that contrary to Postal's proposal in 'On So-called Pronouns in English', pronominals are not determiners. The points made in Delorme and Dougherty with reference to Postal's proposal will be supplemented by further arguments which falsify Postal's hypothesis. Jackendoff's treatise on X̄syntax will be dealt with. It will appear that Jackendoff tends to embrace whatever seems to support his theory, and tends to ignore or explain away what does not support his theory. The chapter presents to falsify Jackendoff's proposal that restrictive relative clauses do not modify NPs but Ns. Finally, it discusses stacked relatives, and proposes that Jackendoff's version of X̄ syntax makes it impossible for him to capture a remarkable X̄ generalisation which concerns extraposition and raising, and which accounts naturally for the internal structure of NPs with stacked adjectives.
