Irregularity in Syntax

absolute exception ADJ-SHIFT ADJECTIVAL aggress analysis ANIMATE apply assume beat my wife beat your wife Bill Boolean functions Chomsky Chomsky's cleft sentence complex symbol Consider the following COUNTABLE deep structure defined deleted derived dissuade embedded English example fact fully grammatical grammatical member gurk Harry hypothetical lexical items INCHOATIVE irregularities IT-DEL John John loves Mary John's lexical base hypothesis lexical category lexical extension lexical member lexical representation lexicon linguistic theory markedness meet the SD meet the structural Metarule metatheory minor rule morpheme natural language negative nominalization normal Note notion noun phrases NP VP NP object occur optional rules passive transformation Paul Postal persuade phonological possible predictable preposition pro-verb question restrictions rule features sauce SD features SD ID-NP-DEL SD NOM Section sense SINGULAR STATIVE structural description structure underlying subcategorization synonymous syntactic features tences tion transformational grammar transitive verbs tures undergo underlying structure unmarked violation vowels WH-DEL