derivation
transformational grammar
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- In linguistics: Chomsky’s grammar
…applicable; in doing so, a derivation can be constructed of one of the sentences generated by the grammar. If the rules are applied in the following order: (1), (2), (3), (3), (4), (5), (5), (6), (6), (7), (8), then assuming that “the” is selected on both applications of (5), “man”…
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