Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (MIT Press) by Chomsky Noam

Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2014-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

§ 4.4. The role of categorial rules

We have defined the categorial component as the system of rewriting rules of the base—that is, the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon and the subcategorization rules that we, for the present, regard as belonging to the lexicon. The rules of the categorial component carry out two quite separate functions: they define the system of grammatical relations, and they determine the ordering of elements in deep structures. At least the first of these functions appears to be carried out in a very general and perhaps universal way by these rules. The transformational rules map deep structures into surface structures, perhaps reordering elements in various ways in the course of this operation.

It has been suggested several times that these two functions of the categorial component be more sharply separated, and that the second, perhaps, be eliminated completely. Such is the import of the proposals regarding the nature of syntactic structure to be found in Curry (1961) and Šaumjan and Soboleva (1963).34 They propose, in essence, that in place of such rules as (69), the categorial component should contain the corresponding rules (70), where the element on the right is a set rather than a string:

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