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What are the three main components of the grammar described in Syntactic Structures?
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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 2010.
In the 1957 work Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky introduced a transformational-generative grammar system composed of three distinct sections or components:
- Phrase-structure component: This component uses a set of rules to generate the underlying constituent structure of sentences.
- Transformational component: This component consists of rules that operate on the structures generated by the phrase-structure component, converting or transforming them into derived structures.
- Morphophonemic component: This component contains rules that convert the output of the transformational component into the final phonetic or morphological form of the language.1