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摘要：The monograph is reviewed with reference to some related articles publishedmore recently by the same author. The notion of grammar as a sentence-generatingdevice is briefly reviewed and its significance in the study of language isemphasized. It is pointed out that the generative grammar with the generalizedtransformation as its part can explain not only the recurrent formal propertieswithin a sentence, but also those outside a sentence. Thus, for example, thechoice of pronouns in reference to the nouns that have appeared in a precedingsentence can be handled formally in terms of a potential applicability of a transformationthat combines the pertinent sentences into one. It is remarked thatthe generalized transformation should be regarded as a grammatical level that isdistinct from the singulary transformation, in view of the substantial differencein the form of rules, the generating capacities, and in particular its recursiveness. It is also pointed out that the present form of the phrase structure grammarmay not be the most desirable, once it is considered as a part of the transformationalgrammar. Presumably, more formal restrictions and / or sub-structuresshould be introduced into the level. A possible modification may be dividingthe phrase structure into two sub-levels, first a possibly recursive context-freegrammar, and second a level for selecting lexical items in the form of a branchingchoice structure that represent the category analysis. The selectional restrictionsmay be imposed on the choise of categories in the succeeding stage of the‘screening transformation’ that deletes all ineligible strings. It is concluded thatdetails in the grammatical structure including the above-mentioned points have to be determined by further studies of various existing languages.
