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Chapter 5 Syntax

 Transformational-generative (TG) grammar—Chomsky

 Goals: TG grammar must account for all and only grammatical sentences.

 Syntactic categories 

 Phrase structure (PS) rules

  

 Tree diagrams

  

 Recursion and the infinitude of language 

 Sub-categorization of the lexicon.

 Transformational rules (T-rules) 

  

 Systemic-functional grammar—M. A. K. Halliday

 Goals

 The transitivity system of language 

 Doing – material process 

 Being – relational process 

 Sensing – mental process 

 Less central types of linguistic process 

 Verbal processes – saying something 

 Behavioral processes – active conscious processes 

 Existential processes – existence of an entity 

 Mood and modality 

 Theme and rheme 

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