A proposed transformational rule

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Newman, John

• In Section 1 I shall attempt to demonstrate how the need for a transformational rule, Tuni, uniting features under an NP node, rises in a transformational grammar containing a certain type of deletion transformation. Tuni will be investigated further (formally in Section 2, informally in Section 3) and it will be seen that Tuni is a valuable transformational rule in more ways than those mentioned in Section 1 and may lead to simplification of the grammars of a relatively large number of languages.

• Date created

  1973

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Function Words
  • Nouns
  • Determiners (Languages)
  • Sentence Structure
  • Transformational Generative Grammar
  • Diagrams
  • Phrase Structure

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3SQ8QJ42

• License

  © 1973 John Newman. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.