• distinction. Transformational grammar included two kinds of rules: phrase-structure rules and transformational rules. In transformational grammar, each sentence...
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    linguistics. The earliest version of Chomsky's model was called Transformational grammar, with subsequent iterations known as Government and binding theory...
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  • linguistics, transformational syntax is a derivational approach to syntax that developed from the extended standard theory of generative grammar originally...
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  • operation in transformational grammar Transformation of precious metals, see synthesis of precious metals Data transformation (statistics) Transformation (music)...
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    developments in early generative grammar. In it, Chomsky introduced his idea of a transformational generative grammar, succinctly synthesizing and integrating...
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  • dependency grammar. The development of the theory was initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan in the 1970s, in reaction to the theory of transformational grammar...
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    the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching...
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  • in part a reaction against transformational theories of syntax. In fact, the notational extensions to context-free grammars (CFGs) developed in GPSG are...
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    and research. His research focused on Noam Chomsky's theories of transformational grammar specializing in syntax and deletion phenomena. He published several...
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  • Phrase structure rules (category Grammar frameworks)
    language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957. They are used to break down...
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  • Syntax (redirect from Grammar theory)
    then, numerous theories have been proposed under its umbrella: Transformational grammar (TG) (Original theory of generative syntax laid out by Chomsky...
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  • rules in universal terms. Relational grammar began as an alternative to transformational grammar. In relational grammar, constituents that serve as the arguments...
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  • (United States, 1934—), construction grammar Kayne, Richard S. (United States, 1944—), syntax, transformational grammar Kazama Kiyozō (Japan, 1928–), Japanese...
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  • early 1980s, especially among the linguists working within the transformational grammar framework. From its inception in the 1950s, the Chomskyan brand...
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  • the theories of Gregory Bateson, and Noam Chomsky (particularly transformational grammar). Bandler and Grinder say that their methodology can codify the...
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  • Whiz deletion (category Syntactic transformation)
    analyzed by Langendoen as a transformational reduction of relative clauses: 145–147  that—together with another transformation, which moves adjectives in...
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  • by the American linguist Charles J. Fillmore in the context of Transformational Grammar (1968). This theory analyzes the surface syntactic structure of...
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  • prominent in government and binding theory and the standard theory of transformational grammar. The term "theta role" is often used interchangeably with the term...
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  • Cognitive grammar / Cognitive linguistics Construction grammar Fluid Construction Grammar Word grammar Generative grammar: Transformational grammar (1960s)...
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  • Japan. Lexical-functional grammar Minimal recursion semantics Relational grammar Situation semantics Syntax Transformational grammar Type Description Language...
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  • contrasts with Chomskyan transformational grammar. Functional discourse grammar has been developed as a successor to functional grammar, attempting to be more...
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  • Syntactic movement (category Syntactic transformation)
    and is associated with so-called transformational or derivational theories of syntax (such as transformational grammar, government and binding theory,...
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  • London: Unwin Hyman. Baker, C. L. 1978. Introduction to generative transformational grammar. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Baker, C. L. 1988. English...
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  • Branching (linguistics) (category Grammar)
    Grammar (LFG) assumes all branching to be binary. Other theories (both constituency- and dependency-based ones), e.g. early Transformational Grammar,...
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  • Pair Grammar. The following is a sample of grammars falling under the model-theoretic umbrella: the non-procedural variant of Transformational grammar (TG)...
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  • of this book as his PhD thesis titled Transformational Analysis, setting out his ideas on transformational grammar; he was awarded a Ph.D. for it, and it...
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  • X-bar theory (category Grammar)
    solution, aligned with the thesis of generative grammar. X-bar theory was incorporated into both transformational and nontransformational theories of syntax...
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  • Move α (category Syntactic transformation)
    Move α is a feature of many transformational-generative grammars, first developed in the Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST) by Noam Chomsky in the...
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  • Split infinitive (category English grammar)
    infinitive position from a parallel position in a different construction. Transformational grammarians have attributed the construction to a re-analysis of the...
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  • GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s...
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