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The Subjunctive and the Negative
"It upsets me terribly that he has laid out, um, different kinds of syntax using transformational notation," says the linguist. "I think it's just a descriptive thing without necessarily endorsing a particular theory of language but it's still, uh, yeah. And it tells you what, what happens." The author also talks about polar questions and how they are related to positive or negative answers.