syntax transformational rules

TRANFORMATIONAL RULESPhạm Thị Hoày Thương DT14TAN01... Moves the auxiliary to the left of the subjectApplying the inversion transformation formed the surface structure for the question

TRANFORMATIONAL RULES

Phạm Thị Hoày Thương

DT14TAN01

Moves the auxiliary to the left of the subject

Applying the inversion transformation formed the surface structure for the question pattern

Ex: The boy will leave

Will the boy leave?

INVERSION RULE

Moves the Wh-element to the initial position of the sentence Ex: 1 The man should fix which car

Which car the man fix

2 The child can sit on what

What can the child sit on?

WH-MOVEMENT RULE

Note:

• Wh-words: What and Who: simple nouns

• Ex: DEEP STRUCTURE

S

N

The child can sit on what

Note:

• Wh-words: Which: a determiner

• Ex: DEEP STRUCTURE

S

The man should fix which car?

THANKS YOUR ATTENTION