One of our printeresses has got the dead wood on any jail, if she should ever be so unfortunate as to ever be locked up in one.

In this connection, she notes (1984, p. 42) that in Vata (a language of the Kru family, spoken in the Ivory Coast) the normal word-order is _(VP) XP^✽ V, where XP^✽ represents one or more Complements of the head V of VP, and where V is positioned at the right periphery of V-bar. She notes that in Vata, a finite Clause containing an Auxiliary will have the AUX positioned in I between the subject NP and the VP, with the V positioned at the end of the VP, as in … But if I contains no Auxiliary (i.e. is empty), the Verb of the VP will move from V into I, and hence no longer be positioned at the end of VP, but rather in the characteristic I position between NP and VP: cf. … Here, the movement of the Verb out of VP-final position (…) into I produces an obvious change in the linear ordering of constituents, thus lending clear empirical support to the V MOVEMENT analysis. And Koopman goes on to suggest that given that we have clear empirical motivation for positing a rule of V MOVEMENT for languages such as Vata, universalist considerations argue in favor of adopting the V MOVEMENT analysis rather than the AFFIX MOVEMENT analysis for English, in default of any evidence to the contrary.

Mantastic as Jake was, one thing was certain.

(Between bites of taco shells, he does manage to sample one of Monica's dishes, and he likes it well enough to shout, Slap my ass and call me Judy!) April 17, 1995: Monica and Fake Monica (the woman who stole her credit cards) audition ...