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Originally Posted by Casiopea  Hi Alienvoord, 
Sorry for this late reply. You asked about syntax, about how the framework would get around it. Well, it could probably involve something along the line of movement, like this - not that I am offering a solution here or defending the camp.
Base Form: Sam wants pizza, and me too.
Surface Form A: Sam and me want pizza. <'and me' moved>
Surface Form B: Me and Sam want pizza. <'Sam' and 'Me' switch>
All the best.  |
Actually my questions were rhetorical. You said that the CGEL's explanation "fails foremost to take into consideration that language is tied to culture." My point was that the CGEL's explanation has nothing to do with pragmatics (which is what I thought you meant by culture).
Yes, the CGEL's argument is flawed, but their basic point makes sense: co-ordinated pronouns are represented differently than single pronouns in our linguistic knowledge. And by "linguistic knowledge" I mean what I have also called "syntactic rules" and what transformational linguists call "the language faculty" or "the grammar." Whatever we do with coordinating pronouns pragmatically has to be constrained by the grammar.