Transformational grammar an Introduction
Transformational Grammar (TG) Definition and Examples Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms: Transformational grammar is a theory of grammar that accounts for the constructions of a language by linguistic transformations and phrase structures. Also known as transformational-generative grammar or T-G or TGG . "The era of Transformational-Generative Grammar, as it is called, signifies a sharp break with the linguistic tradition of the first half of the [twentieth] century both in Europe and America because, having as its principal objective the formulation of a finite set of basic and transformational rules that explain how the native speaker of a language can generate and comprehend all its possible grammatical sentences, it focuses mostly on syntax and not on phonology or morphology, as structuralism does" ( Encyclopedia of Linguistics , 2005). Observations "The new linguistics, which began in 1957 with th...
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