ABSTRACT
In transformational grammar, the presentation of sentences in the form of a tree diagram or labeled bracketing as the output of the application of transformational rules.
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transformational grammar
Collective term for different descriptive models in lexical semantics, all of which are based on the basic principles of structuralism. The common characteristics of these approaches are: (a) the meaning of a word cannot be described in isolation, but is a function of its relation to other lexemes of the same conceptual area ( lexical field theory, semantic relation); (b) the whole meaning of a word can be analyzed as smaller semantic elements ( componential analysis, lexical decomposition). As in phonology, this assumption is based on the hypothesis that there is a universal inventory of semantic components from which every individual language makes specific selections. Structural semantics sets out to describe the structure of the lexicon by analyzing individual meanings and semantic relations like synonymy and antonymy, among others.
