ABSTRACT
The grammar, then, will be a set of transformation statements each of which transforms a given representation of a sentence into a more specific one. 10 if α, β, γ, with or without subscripts and primes, stand for any sequences (or zero, henceforth 0) of the elements appearing in statements (e.g., sequences of phonemes, morphemes, phrases, etc., including brackets, dots, etc.), then the basic transformation statements of the grammar will be of the form: https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203357453/c4acbe8b-6118-49c5-a69e-c76e2a052c6f/content/ch2_page6-01_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> where a and ß contain no notational elements but are simply sequences of the elements set up to represent parts of sentences (phonemes, morphemes, etc.). This means that a is transformed by this statement into a, when conditions … obtain.
If α=αlβlγ and β=αlβl,γ, we rewrite (1) as: https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203357453/c4acbe8b-6118-49c5-a69e-c76e2a052c6f/content/ch2_page6-02_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
