Integration of transformational theories on English syntax . By Robert P. Stockwell, Paul Schachter, and Barbara Hall Partee. 2 volumes. (Command Systems Division, Electronic Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, ESD-TR-68-419.) Los Angeles: University of California, 1968 [1969]. Pp. xiv, 1057. Available from Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va. 22151 (Vol. 1 AD-703-742, Vol. 2 AD-703-300); each volume $3.00.

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Abstract : The study attempts to bring together most of the information about the transformational analysis of the grammar of English that was available up through the summer of 1968, and to integrate it into a single coherent format. The format chosen is that of C. Fillmore (the 'Deep Case' hypothesis) combined with the 'Lexicalist' hypothesis of N. Chomsky. The areas of close investigation were the determiner system; pronominalization; negation; conjunction; relativization; complementation and nominalization; the systems of interrogative, passive, imperative, and cleft sentences; the genitive; the lexicon; and the ordering of rules for these areas of the grammar.

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