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transformational grammar generative semantics nonkernel sentence deep structure derivation surface structure kernel sentence transformational rule language universal grammar Grimm’s law Verner’s law speculative grammar Prague school structuralism immediate constituent analysis Neogrammarian glossematics tagmemics

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

American linguist