#17389The formal proof, which makes crucial use of the Interchange Lemma of Ogden et al., is so constructed as to be valid even if English is presumed to contain grammatical sentences in which respectively operates across a pair of coordinate phrases one of whose members has fewer conjuncts than the other; it thus goes through whatever the facts may be regarding constructions with unequal numbers of conjuncts in thescope of respectively, whereas other arguments have foundered on this problem.
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#17274English is shown to be trans-context-free on the basis of coordinations of the respectively type that involvestrictly syntactic cross-serial agreement.