Question

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Read the statement.

"The best way to understand what a sentence communicates is by looking at the parts of speech it includes."

Who would be most likely to say this?

a traditional grammarian
a structural grammarian
a transformation grammarian
a semanticist

Answer 1

IS IT......
the third one

Answer 2

That is incorrect
It would be a traditional grammarian

Answer 3

Chomsky's advisor, Zellig Harris, took transformations to be relations between sentences such as "I finally met this talkshow host you always detested" and simpler (kernel) sentences "I finally met this talkshow host" and "You always detested this talkshow host".[need quotation to verify] Chomsky developed a formal theory of grammar where transformations manipulated not just the surface strings, but the parse tree associated to them, making transformational grammar a system of tree automaton.[4] This definition proved adequate for subsequent versions including the `extended', `revised extended', and `Government-Binding' (GB) versions of generative grammar, but may no longer be sufficient for the current minimalist grammar in that merge may require a formal definition that goes beyond the tree manipulation characteristic of Move α.