The present course aims at providing further knowledge and insight into the syntax of contemporary English language by focusing on the second level of syntactic description, namely the transformational level. The main envisaged objectives are:
1. to revise basic concepts used within the general framework of Transformational – Generative Grammar.
2. to revise knowledge concerning the constituent structure of the English sentence.
3. to introduce, discuss and illustrate the concepts which are held responsible for such syntactic phenomena as movement operations within transformations.
4. to analyze the basic types of transformations undergone by the English sentence.
These aims are to be achieved by both studying the theoretical part of each and every chapter and by doing the practical applications as suggested by the exercises.
Contents
Chapter 1.The Transformational Level 4
1.1. Basic Concepts 4
1.2. Exercises 6
Chapter 2. Basic Elementary Operations 7
2.1. Deletions 7
2.1.1. Constant Deletion 7
2.1.2. Identity Deletion 8
2.1.3. Gapping 8
2.1.4. Equi-NPDeletion. Control Constructions 10
2.1.5. Subcategorization of Control Verbs 11
2.1.6. Exercises 15
2.2. Insertions 15
2.2.1. Exercises 17
2.3. Substitutions 17
2.3.1. Exercises 19
2.4. Adjunctions 19
2.4.1. Exercises 21
Chapter 3. Movement Rules 22
3.1. Raising 22
3.1.1. Subject-to- Subject Raising 22
3.1.2. Exercises 24
3.2. Subject –to –Object Raising 24
3.2.1. Exercises 28
3.3. Cleft- Constructions 28
3.3.1. Exercises 29
Chapter 4. Evaluation Test 30
4.1. Multiple Choice 30
4.2. True / False 32
4.3. Answer key 33
Glossary of Terms 34
References. Recommended Bibliography 35
