总  结

Transformational generative grammar is a theoretical grammar (not a pedagogic grammar) which attempts to account for this aspect of speakers’ knowledge of sentence construction. It is therefore psychological in nature, as made by Chomsky (1965)

反  思

1. What is the goal of Chomsky’s transformational generative grammar?

2. What model is proposed by Chomsky to account for the mental process?

3. What are phrase structure rules and transformation rules?