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Chomsky’s system of transformational grammar was substantially modified in 1965. Perhaps the most important modification was the incorporation, within the system, of a semantic component, in addition to the syntactic component and phonological component. (The phonological component may be thought of as replacing the morphophonemic component of Syntactic Structures.) The rules of the syntactic component generate the sentences of the language and assign to each not one but two structural analyses: a deep structure analysis as represented by the underlying phrase marker, and a surface structure analysis, as represented by the final derived phrase marker. The underlying phrase marker is assigned by rules of the base (roughly equivalent to the PS [Phrase-Structure] rules of the earlier system); the derived phrase marker is assigned by the transformational rules. The interrelationship of the four sets of rules is shown diagrammatically in Figure 7. The meaning of the sentence is derived (mainly, if not wholly) from the deep structure by means of the rules of semantic interpretation; the phonetic realization of the sentence is derived from its surface structure by means of the rules of the phonological component. The grammar ("grammar" is now to be understood as covering semantics and phonology, as well as syntax) is thus an integrated system of rules for relating the pronunciation of a sentence to its meaning. The syntax, and more particularly the base, is at the "heart" of the system, as it were: it is the base component (as the arrows in the diagram indicate) that generates the infinite class of structures underlying the well-formed sentences of a language. These structures are then given a semantic and phonetic "interpretation" by the other components
Figure 7
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