Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Published: March 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780226358000
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Grammar; Generative Grammar; Unassigned Title
First sentence: In every introductory book on transformational-generative syntax, there is an argument for the necessity of transformations that runs something like this: let us assume that the syntactic structure of a sentence should be represented as a labeled bracketing of a string of formatives (or by the theoretically equivalent 'phrase-marker').