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Glossary of Terms ambiguity the condition whereby any linguistic form has two or more interpretations anomatous sentence a meaningless sequence of words which deviates from the rules for sentence formation co-indexation in GG, the process of marking the identity of constituents (e.9. in the deep structure of a sentence) by using subscript letters or numbers complement a functional label which denotes a constituent whose presence is required by a verb, noun, adjective or preposition conjunct a conjoined element (e.9. in TG, conjoining transformation) conltituent a string of words which syntactically behaves as a unit , part of a larger linguistic construction deep structure in TG , the abstract , underlying representation of a sentence specifying the syntactic facts upon which meaning interpretation is applied derived structure in GG, an output phrase-marker resulting after the application of a transformational rule ellipsis omission of a part of a sentence structure embed (-ing /-ed) in GG, a process or construction where one sentence is included 1' embedded') into another, i.e. traditionally, in syntactic subordination extraposition a movement rule or transformation involving adjunction, e .9. a PP moved out of a NP and attached to the end of the clause gapping the omission of an identical part in coordinate clauses lexicon the lexical component of a generative grammar , containing morphological, syntactic and semantic specifications movement in TG , a basic type of transformation which moves a constituent from one part of a phrase-marker to another; a constituency test phrase. structure (PS) levet the level of sentence constituency structure primitive a concept which refers to axiomatic terms (i.e.' true', 'given',' basic)' used in the description of various linguistic theories ( e.g. grammars) recoverability a term which takes into account the retrieving of elements which have been deleted by means of the linguistic context selectional restriction a semantic feature specifying a restriction on the collocations of lexical items, e.g.leam generally has a human subject surface structure in TG, the stage in the derivation of a sentence that occurs after applying transformational rules and which constitutes the input for the phonological component. GOntem pgrary Eng'lish Language. )ntroQucing T ranslormattons
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Glossary of Terms
ambiguity the condition whereby any linguistic form has two or moreinterpretationsanomatous sentence a meaningless sequence of words which deviates fromthe rules for sentence formationco-indexation in GG, the process of marking the identity of constituents (e.9.
in the deep structure of a sentence) by using subscript letters or numbers
complement a functional label which denotes a constituent whose presence
is required by a verb, noun, adjective or prepositionconjunct a conjoined element (e.9. in TG, conjoining transformation)conltituent a string of words which syntactically behaves as a unit , part of a
larger linguistic constructiondeep structure in TG , the abstract , underlying representation of a sentence
specifying the syntactic facts upon which meaning interpretation is appliedderived structure in GG, an output phrase-marker resulting after theapplication of a transformational ruleellipsis omission of a part of a sentence structureembed (-ing /-ed) in GG, a process or construction where one sentence is
included 1' embedded') into another, i.e. traditionally, in syntacticsubordinationextraposition a movement rule or transformation involving adjunction, e .9. a
PP moved out of a NP and attached to the end of the clausegapping the omission of an identical part in coordinate clauseslexicon the lexical component of a generative grammar , containingmorphological, syntactic and semantic specificationsmovement in TG , a basic type of transformation which moves a constituentfrom one part of a phrase-marker to another; a constituency testphrase. structure (PS) levet the level of sentence constituency structureprimitive a concept which refers to axiomatic terms (i.e.' true', 'given','basic)' used in the description of various linguistic theories ( e.g. grammars)
recoverability a term which takes into account the retrieving of elementswhich have been deleted by means of the linguistic contextselectional restriction a semantic feature specifying a restriction on thecollocations of lexical items, e.g.leam generally has a human subjectsurface structure in TG, the stage in the derivation of a sentence that occursafter applying transformational rules and which constitutes the input for thephonological component.
GOntem pgrary Eng'lish Language. )ntroQucing T ranslormattons
