ABSTRACT

Transformational syntax is an analytic technique of grammatical description which has exciting psychological and philosophical ramifications inspiring creative research into the conceptual powers and behaviour of man. In this book, first published in 1971, the author suggests that the techniques of the classical period (1964-66) of transformational syntax provide the securest foundation for syntactic analysis, and are indispensable if students are to understand recent changes to the analytical technique. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

chapter 1|9 pages

What is a Grammar?

chapter 2|11 pages

Deep and Surface Structure

chapter 3|14 pages

Constituent Structure: Syntactic Functions

chapter 5|12 pages

Lexical Interpretation

chapter 6|16 pages

Deixis: Det and Aux

chapter 7|8 pages

Derivation of a Simple Sentence

chapter 9|15 pages

Pro-forms

chapter 10|14 pages

Complex Sentences

chapter 11|10 pages

Some Nominalizations

chapter 12|11 pages

Relative Clauses and Adjectives Revisited

chapter 13|14 pages

Conjoining Transformations