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Download full textJacobs, Roderick A. – The English Record, 1969
In the years following the appearance of Noam Chomsky's book, "Syntactic Structures," in 1957, transformational grammarians modified and improved his initial model of language. The notion of a deep structure of meaning underlying a sentence's surface structure was revised to embody elements representing negation, command, and interrogation, and to…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Grammar
