INTEGRATION OF TRANSFORMATIONAL THEORIES ON ENGLISH SYNTAX

Abstract

The study attempts to bring together most of the information about the transformational analysis of the grammar of English that was available up through the summer of 1968, and to integrate it into a single coherent format. The format chosen is that of C. Fillmore (the 'Deep Case' hypothesis) combined with the 'Lexicalist' hypothesis of N. Chomsky. The areas of close investigation were the determiner system; pronominalization; negation; conjunction; relativization; complementation and nominalization; the systems of interrogative, passive, imperative, and cleft sentences; the genitive; the lexicon; and the ordering of rules for these areas of the grammar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0703300

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  • Barbara H. Partee
  • Paul Schacter
  • Robert P. Stockwell

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  • University of California, Los Angeles

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