Elsewhere & Otherwise



Alan Prince



Rutgers University







These remarks address issues raised by Morris Halle in a letter to
 

Glot International. My aim is to situate the discussion in the context
 

of the theoretical competition between rule-package serialism (the
 

view that grammatical generalizations are packaged into re-write rules
 

which are serially ordered) and more recent approaches which factor
 

generalizations into interacting constraints. Although various
 

wide-of-the-mark objurgations are dismissed in the course of this
 

note, it proves to be at least as interesting to pursue the logic of
 

Halle's own position -- in particular some of the rather unexamined
 

complications involved in imposing an 'Elsewhere Condition' on
 

rule-package serialism.







This expands and reformats Glot International 2.6: 1,23-24.