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	Do Colorless Ideas Sleep Furiously?
		Things can certainly sleep, and actions can be performed furiously, but "colorless green" is a contradiction, and "sleep furiously" has difficulties associated with it, and assigning either phrase to "idea" does serious violence to our idea of what ideas are, what properties they have, and what they can do.
		At the very least, ideas are commonly said to lie dormant, and the use of "sleep" as a general term referring to a state of dormancy is common.
		That green ideas sleep is largely intrinsic to the definition of a green idea.
	stuff.mit.edu /people/dpolicar/writing/proseDP/text/colorlessIdeas.html (1230 words)

	Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A green idea is, according to well established usage of the word "green" is one that is an idea that is new and untried.
		To sleep is, among other things, is to be in a state of dormancy or inactivity, or in a state of unconsciousness.
		To sleep furiously may seem a puzzling turn of phrase but one reflects that the mind in sleep often indeed moves furiously with ideas and images flickering in and out.
	home.tiac.net /~cri/1997/chomsky.html (354 words)

	Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously Blogging
		Jonathan Goldberg: Talk of colorless green ideas is not necessarily incoherent.
		It's the laws of semantics that are "violated" by the juxtaposition of two adjectives, colorless and green, that are logically incompatible.
		For example, when Stross dropped "colorless green ideas slept furiously" in his novel, I didn't worry about grammar, I took the meaning of the sentence as "I have read something of Chomsky and the question of language, structure and meaning." And that communication added value to my enjoyment of the writing.
	delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/10/colorless_green.html (4730 words)

	HUANG Intro Syntax Lecture Notes - Chapter 3 -
		Sleep furiously forms a constituent called VP, and therefore is a VP.
		The string ideas constitutes an N, sleep constitutes a V, green is an A, and the string Colorless green ideas sleep furiously constitutes an S by this definition, because S exhaustively dominates this string.
		On the other hand, the string ideas sleep does not form a constituent of any sort, because it is not exhaustively dominated by any node.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~ctjhuang/lecture_notes/lecch3.html (4114 words)

	Language Log: Colorless green probability estimates
		In an article "Formal grammar and information theory: together again?", Fernando Pereira describes an experiment that disproves Chomsky on this point, by fitting a simple statistical model (an "aggregate bigram model") to a corpus of newspaper text.
		The sentence "Furiously sleep green ideas colorless" is estimated by this model to be about 200,000 times less probable than "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" (p.
		Read the whole thing, which gives a picture of the history of these issues since 1950, including a sympathetic account of Zellig Harris' research program, and makes some interesting suggestions for the future.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000025.html (269 words)

	Semantics
		The adjective "colourless" indicates the property "without colour", but it is combined with the adjective "green", which bestows the property "green in colour".
		This is unreasonable since something cannot be both green and without colour at the same time.
		It is instructive to compare the sentence with a syntactically incorrect sentence such as "Sleep colourless furiously green ideas".
	www.dsv.su.se /~vadim/cmnew/chapter2/ch2_25.htm (212 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.457: Flaming and Colorless Green Ideas
		The sentence, devised by Noam Chomsky, was: colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
		The path to primate knowledge unforseen, He sleeps in peace at eve with Eve.
		One apple later, he looks curiously At the gardens of dichromates, in whom colourless green ideas sleep furiously then rage for birth each morning, until doom Brings rainbows they at last perceive.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/2/2-457.html (798 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.221: Children's Language Games, Green Ideas
		> > (1) Colourless green ideas sleep furiously > (2) D'incolores idees vertes dorment furieusement Ali Aydin (University of Trondheim) has written a squib called "A Far-Fetched Context" in "SKY 1990" (The 1990 Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki 1990), constructing just that, a far-fetched context in which (1) "might" be uttered.
		For Bert Peeters' collection of allusions to "colourless green ideas", here is a little poem by John Hollander (from THE NIGHT MIRROR, 1971), reprinted from G. Harman (ed.): On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays, Anchor Books, New York 1974, p.
		Hymes's poem was published in the G. Harman anthology on Chomsky published by Doubleday Anchor; I don't have the reference with me. There's also a poem containing the line, "furiously sleep ideas green colorless", which I can dig up if anyone's interested.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-221.html (332 words)

	Manufacturing Consent: Pages 28-29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Well, a small industry has been spawned by one linguistic example, namely, Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, which has been the source of poems and arguments and music and so on.
		This is a very interesting sentence because it shows that syntax can be separated from semantics, that form can be separated from meaning.
		If you read it back to front -- furiously sleep ideas green colorless -- that wouldn't sound like English at all.
	www.zmag.org /Chomsky/mc/mc-supp-028.html (194 words)

	Artificial Eye: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
		From wikipedia: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical.
		If you havent noticed, fALk's favorite colour is green, that of this blog and its elements...
		home of where "Newly formed bland ideas are unexpressible in an infuriating way." And this time without music :)...
	www.prototypen.com /blog/vjblog/archives/001216.html (142 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.313: Pouldaff, Colorless green ideas, Dictionary, Neg in Hebrew
		From there, "green ideas" would be easily conprehensible to their minds.
		Suppose now comes an opponent to Esperanto, he may say, "Your green ideas are really colorless, not only colorless, those ideas are no longer popular!
		Colorless green ideas sleep now!" Well, what is a possible reaction from some Esperantists?
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-313.html (570 words)

	His Green, Colorful Ideas Awaken Furiously, by Craig Morris
		And even if we find traces of transformation in all languages, would that tell us what the deep structure is? Sounds like you've got a topic for your post-doc.
		Sometimes, some of the ideas of people too famous to be simply ignored are considered too radical.
		His legacy is immense, but his greatest achievement is probably that the next generations of linguists and activists will continue to emerge from the large circle of his listeners.
	www.chomsky.info /onchomsky/20031203.htm (2232 words)

	Norman Holland's "The Brain and the Book": Session 3
		"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." In the grammar?
		"Sleep furiously, colorless green ideas." "Anyone lives in a pretty how town."
		Neuro approach to language dismisses this approach Pinker-Chomsky as "The Black Box Approach," because "the brain itself is not studied." Can constrain theories of brain function w/o refce to brain anatomy, chemistry, or physiology.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/nnh/seminar/brnbk03.htm (635 words)

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		Metaphor in scientific thinking – resources on the study of metaphor
		((Cr((e(a.)t)(i'v)(e) (I'd)e(a)s “Linguistics, Neology and Neological Ideas” from a site about creativity – Here’s a quote – “Inside creativity the letter A is in parentheses to indicate the homonym, Ah!.
		Then the pair of parentheses including the letters EA, with the period to be after the A, should bring to mind the abbreviation for the word ‘each’.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~duanmu/ling211/semantics.htm (247 words)

	::My homepage:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY", and I'm sloppy in places, but the most troubling aspect is that I find myself
		LeBlanc, former FTV drummer Chris Vincent, and I have had up our sleeves for awhile now.
		spend a week working on a series of mostly short ideas for this thing, and record at Howie's on 4/20.
	www.frenchtvonline.com /My_Homepage_Files/Page1.html (2212 words)

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