| “Meaning is a birdsnest in a syntactic tree” | |
| N. Chomsky, 1955, Qualifying Exam, U. Penn. (reported at Chgo Ling Soc 15.5) | |
| “Meaning is a mare’s nest in a structural tree” | |
| L. Bloomfield, nightmare on meeting Z. Harris (reconstructed from extant texts, L. Kelly) | |
| “Meaning is the sap that gives life to a barren syntactic tree” | |
| R. Montague, 1972, B.L.S. Party | |
| “Syntactic trees are meaning, seen dimly through linguistic- | |
| Anonymous, Semantics Camp, 1979 | |
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