A Linguistic Inquiry squib of mine from 1970 (LingI 1.4.549-55) that for complex reasons hasn’t been digitally available on this site; thanks to the Indo-Europeanist Michael L. Weiss (Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Cornell), I am able to reproduce the squib here so that it will be available for inspection along with (most of) my other publications; the issue of the individuation of rules — of descriptive generalizations — is still a live one (independent of the formalisms of classical generative phonology), and then there’s the question of the useful ruki terminology, whose history MLW has been trying to trace (this squib might have been the source of its spread throughout the linguistic literature; I hope to post eventually on the history of the term).
Now: the 1970 squib, page by page:
page 549
page 550
page 551
page 552
page 553
page 554
page 555
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