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List of linguistics topics needing urgent attention

Words and Rules: should be a more academic discussion of the model and the controversy, possibly on a separate page

Distributed morphology: stub

Lexicalism: doesn't exist

Autosegmental phonology: stub

Dependency grammar: stub

Dynamic antisymmetry: stub

Chain shift: stub, very unclear

List of linguistics articles needing not-so-urgent attention

Transformational grammar: the page should address the various meanings of 'transformational grammar' - the formalism for (Type-0) formal languages developed in syntactic structures; ((Revised) Extended) Standard Theory (which should be defined more clearly); "generative grammar" in the sense of a "formal" (as opposed to functionalist) linguistics; "generative grammar" in the sense of whatever Chomsky does; etc - this would be similar to the discussion of senses at the top of Generative grammar, which is much closer to being exhaustive. Note these two pages should not be merged since "generative grammar" has a formal-language-theory meaning which its page primarily addresses. TG page should also be reviewed for content.

Underspecification: could use discussion of lexical underspecification, relation to lexicalist-representationalist debate, implementations of underspecification in HPSG; links to a tool for scope underspecification in computational semantics without mentioning this kind of underspecification

Feature structure: only addresses typed feature structures, and not very clearly; Unification page makes no references to typed feature structures; should also be references to feature geometries, which do not seem to have a home on Wikipedia, even under autosegmental phonology

Syntax: should have some content review, esp from the section on Gold's result (which should probably be removed) up to the end

Canadian english: section on phonology is stubbish; many disputed sections

List of linguistics articles needing minor revision

The sound pattern of English: consider mentioning the common term "SPE rules", giving examples and form of phonological rules in SPE

CHILDES database: stub