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Transformational Grammar Basics

Transformational grammar (TGG) proposes that beneath the surface structure of sentences lies a deep structure. TGG uses phrase structure rules, transformational rules, and morphophonemic rules to relate deep structures to surface structures. Transformational rules convert one sentence structure into another without changing meaning, through processes like auxiliary inversion, passives, and generalized transformations. The key components of TGG are phrase structure rules, transformational rules, and morphophonemic rules.

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Transformational Grammar Basics

Transformational grammar (TGG) proposes that beneath the surface structure of sentences lies a deep structure. TGG uses phrase structure rules, transformational rules, and morphophonemic rules to relate deep structures to surface structures. Transformational rules convert one sentence structure into another without changing meaning, through processes like auxiliary inversion, passives, and generalized transformations. The key components of TGG are phrase structure rules, transformational rules, and morphophonemic rules.

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"Beneath every sentence, in the mind of speakers is an invisible inaudible deep structure" (Mental

Lexicon) Noam Chomsky.

CONCEPT OF TGG

Unlike structuralists whose goal was to examine the sentences we actually speak and to describe their
systematic nature.

They wanted to unlock the secrets of language to build a model of our internal rules, a model that would
produce all of the grammatical and no un grammatical sentences.

TRANSFORMATION

transformation is a particular process of alteration by which one sentence structure is converted into
another sentence structure without any change in the meaning (Jacob and Rosebaum) (1968)

When a deep structure undergoes a rule or rules and the end result is a sequence that can be spoken ,
the rule has transformed the sequence causes no transformational rules can ever be allowed to change
meaning ( Elgin 1973).

3 COMPONENTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL

 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION


 TRANSFORMATIONAL RULES
 STRUCTURAL CHANGE

KINDS OF TRANSFORMATION

 Auxiliary Inversion Transforms SA (D TO I)


 Passive Transforms SA (Active to passive)
 Generalize Transformations - Turn several inputs into one (Complex, Compound, Complex )

COMPONETS OF TGG THEORY


PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES

 Assigns symbols to abstract grammatical categories.


 Formulates phrase structure rules in rewrite.
 Form to show relationships among categories.

KINDS OF TRANSFORMATION

 Auxiliary Inversion Transforms SA (D TO I)


 Passive Transforms SA (Active to passive)
 Generalize Transformations - Turn several inputs into one (Complex, Compound, Complex )

COMPONETS OF TGG THEORY

PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES

 Assigns symbols to abstract grammatical categories.


 Formulates phrase structure rules in rewrite.
 Form to show relationships among categories.
 Adapts the phrase structure rules to tree diagraming to illustrate rules.

TRANSFORMATIONAL RULES

 Turn kernel sentences into other types


 Kernel sentences are simple, active, assertive and declarative in form.

MORPHOPHONEMIC RULES - it focuses in

 MORPHOLOGY
 PHONOLOGY

ELEMENTARY TRANSFORMATION

 ADJUNCTION
 Constituents is attached to another to form longer constituent.
 SUBSTITUTION
 Determine an expression which can be substituted using another expression.
 In phrases or sentences like that in which it occurs by another expression.
 DELETION
 Noun Phrase Deletion
 Verb Phrase Deletion
 Linking Verb Deletionxcn
 Imperative Deletion

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