ABSTRACT
One of the first examples of transformational structure discussed in this book happened to illustrate relative clauses and adjectives (Ch. 2, examples (24)-(26». The sentences concerned were used to show how transformations can join simple strings into complex sentences; how they can perform certain modifying operations such as deletion and rearrangement of formatives; and how they explain relationships between sentences - in this case, they explain the synonymy of a complex NP such as the black cat and a simple sentence the cat was black. The connections betwcen (24), (25) and (26) are explained by a rather involved set of rules, rules which have implications for structures additional to those in that first series of examples. In this chapter I will discuss relative clauses and some similar, interconnected or contrasted, structures in more dctail.
