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First Reading Report - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He suggested that instead of worrying about how a description of language could be arrived at. We ought to accept any description that seems to fit the facts, no matter how it was obtained”
      - Chomsky’s grammar was not only transformational but also generative
      - An important part of Chomsky’s contribution to transformational grammar was the construction of kernel sentences
    - - The simplest transform is that of deletion
      - Addition transforms in the simplest of terms adds some type of component or word to a basic sentence pattern
      - The transformations that produce questions, negative statements, and requests are single-base transformations and a sentence which is derived from the terminal strings of two or more kernels are double-base transformations
    - - There is no sense of community in terms of what is truly believed to be correct grammar.
      - . Though it can not be decided which theory is the best, traditional, structural, or transformational, one can be certain that all three of these theories have added something to the world of grammar.
  - - - Harris also laid the foundation for the linguist who forms transformationalism
      - He was very interested in the relationship of similar words together.
    - - Basic constituents
        
        Subject
        
        Predicate
        
        Direct object
    - - For example
        
        Having a list of three or four words and finding the word that doesn’t fit according to the various descriptions of parts of speech it may fit into.
- - - - How words and word order are used in social contexts to get messages across.
    - - It determines how the meaningful arrangement of the basic word-building units (morphemes) and sentence-building units (constituents) can best be described
    - - The changes in word and sentence construction in a language over the years.
    - - It defines the role of the various parts of speech and purports to tell what is the norm, or rule, of "correct" usage.