Questions tagged [transformational-grammar]
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Principles and Parameters vs. Government and Binding
I'm a little confused about the difference between P&P and GB.
This Wikipedia article suggests that they are the same as grammar frameworks, from what I understood:
Principles and parameters as a ...
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VSO languages and generative grammar
I'm wondering how generative grammar handles VSO languages
It seems to me that the subject splits up the verb phrase, and so you're going to have to have some sort of movement going on and a different ...
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How do movement-based theories account for extraposition?
I'm looking at this example of Extraposition from Wikipedia:
Then under Theoretical Accounts (of discontinuity in general) it is written that "[m]odern theories of transformational grammar ... assume ...
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What is the position of 'that' in the relative clause of this sentence?
Researchers report they have engineered an enzyme that can convert 90% of that same plastic back to its pristine starting materials.
Does that originate in spec TP and move to spec CP like in this ...
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What is the difference between generative grammar and transformation grammar?
If we put it in a simple way, can we say generative grammar is about tree diagram, and transformation grammar is how sentences can be interpreted in another way?
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