Lakoff 1970 offers seven sets of data which he believes furnish support for revising current models of syntactic description in such a way as to allow global rules, i.e. rules that make reference to more than a single point in a derivation. A close examination of these data reveals that only two sets cannot be given an adequate treatment within the framework sketched in Chomsky 1965; and even these two sets do not warrant the wide-ranging extension of current syntactic theory which L proposes. Furthermore, L's seven arguments, even if they were accepted, would furnish no support for his assertions concerning the nature of semantic representation.