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Notes 14. How does transformational generative grammar establish finally that ‘you’ is the ‘understood’
subject of an imperative sentence such as the following :
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15. Discuss specific instances from English which lend support to the view that transformational
grammars provide formal explanation for many of the intuition-based observations made by
traditional grammars.
16. Give the deep structures of :
(i) The report that the Committee has released is unsatisfactory.
(ii) The report that Committee may not meet for some time is disturbing.
17. Give the derivation of :
(i) John is easy to please. (ii) John is eager to please.
18. What are the different kinds of Tagmemes ? Explain Tagmemics.
28.10 Further Readings

1. Verma, S.K., V.N. Krishnaswamy. Modern Linguistics: An Introduction.
2. An Introduction to Linguistics, John Lyon.
3. Peter Roach: English phonetics and phonology. Cambridge University Press.
4. Encyclopedia of Linguistic Science Edited By V. Prakasam, Allied Pub.,
New Delhi.

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