The distinction between lexical and functional categories plays a big role in Chomskyan grammars ( Transformational Grammar, Government and Binding Theory, Minimalist Program ), where the role of the functional categories is large.
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:: ( Note this exact same question was also asked on Talk : Transformational grammar, where I answered it to some degree; here I'm answering Diderot more than the OP ).
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Using the insights of transformational grammar, Kuno sketches out what standard grammars do not tell their readers, i . e ., when otherwise normal grammatical patterns " can not " be used.
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Beginning with his " Syntactic Structures " ( 1957 ), a distillation of his " Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory " ( 1955 ), Chomsky challenges structural linguistics and introduces transformational grammar.
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From the 1950s, American linguistic tradition began to diverge from the nativist " transformational grammar and successor theories, which during the 1970s " linguistics wars " gave rise to a wide variety of competing grammar frameworks.
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Particularly in early incarnations, transformational syntax adopted the view that phrase structure grammar must be enriched by a transformational grammar, with syntactic rules or syntactic operations that alter the base structures created by phrase structure rules.
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In transformational grammar, systems of phrase structure rules are supplemented by transformation rules, which act on an existing syntactic structure to produce a new one ( performing such operations as negation, passivization, etc . ).
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In addition to Chomsky's theory of Transformational grammar, other contemporary developments of structuralism included Kenneth Pike's theory of tagmemics, Sidney Lamb's theory of stratificational grammar, and Michael Silverstein's work.
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In recent transformational grammar, the term " specifier " is not normally used to refer to a type of word or phrase, but rather to a structural position provided by X-bar theory or some derivative thereof.
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ECP is a principle of transformational grammar by which traces must be visible, i . e . they must be identifiable as empty positions in the surface structure, similar to the principle of reconstruction for subcategorized for by a verb.
