... Root transformations ' : those which only apply in the sentence dominated by the highest S node ( i.e. , the ' root ' of the phrase struc- ture tree ) . 2 ) ' Structure - preserving transformations ' : those which may also ap- ply in ...

Joseph E. Emonds. CHAPTER I : ROOT TRANSFORMATIONS This study is an attempt to restrict the notion of " grammatical ... structure - preserving transformations , " and " minor movement rules . " The definitions of these classes and the ...

... Root and structure - preserving transformations ( 1970 ) . As the title indicates , Emonds was directly concerned with main clause phenomena for which he used the term “ root . ” Emond's work was influenced by Ross's 1967 MIT ...

... structure-preserving transformations, while perhaps less relevant in current syntactic frameworks, has had a significant impact on past approaches to inversion and continues to exert an influence ... Root transformations and inversion.

... root plus thematic vowel. This is obtained by removing the infinitival ... transformations attach constituents to the highest S, sentences to which ... preserving' (with a few exceptions discussed in Emonds, 1970, Chapter 3). Thus the ...

... root-Ss of SCPs to be dominant and their parentheticals tobe non- dominant, regardless of discourse context. 3.1.1. Root. transformations. Emonds (1976) distinguishes between twolarge classesoftransformations¥ structure-preserving and root ...

... transformations in a grammar: structure-preserving and root. A transformation is structurepreserving if the input and the output of the transformation are substantially characterizable by the same phrase-structure rules. The fundamental ...