Akmajian and Henry (1975: 236-237)  state that “Transformation means preserving of two surface structures derive from exactly the same under...

A tree diagram shows the hierarchical structure of the sentence. The sentence is considered the basic of the syntactic system. Instead of b...

According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary (1996: 1420), transformational grammar generates the deep structures of a language and...

1. Deep structure is the output of phrase structure rules    We can not have deep structure if we don’t have phrase structure rules. e.g...

These rules refer to rules to generate a large number of sentences with only a small number of rules. Below are the  Phrase Structure Rules...

One of the most important concepts proposed by Chomsky is the concept of surface and deep structure . The Generativism paradigm claims tha...

There are so many controversies among linguists from time to time, one of them is structuralism vs. generativism. Structuralism was once int...

Perspective Border Q:        Why is it called 'generative'? A:      ' generative '- to generate = (1) to produce , (2...

Debated issues • Discourse analyst argued the grammarians only concern with abstract sentences and symbols symbolized meaning but ignore th...