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Meaning of "transformational rule" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE

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Transformational rule is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rewrite rule

In linguistics, a rewrite rule for natural language in generative grammar is a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label, such as noun phrase or sentence, and X is a sequence of such labels and/or morphemes, expressing the fact that A can be replaced by X in generating the constituent structure of a sentence. Example: S → NP VP Which means: Sentence consists of Noun Phrase followed by Verb Phrase. Rewrite rules underlie rewriting systems; there are many different varieties of rewriting systems that are commonly studied.

Definition of transformational rule in the English dictionary

The definition of transformational rule in the dictionary is a rule that converts one phrase marker into another. Taken together, these rules, which form the transformational component of the grammar, convert the deep structures of sentences into their surface structures. Other definition of transformational rule is a rule that specifies in purely syntactic terms a method by which theorems may be derived from the axioms of a formal system.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE

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Synonyms and antonyms of transformational rule in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «transformational rule» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE

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The translations of transformational rule from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «transformational rule» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转换规则
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

regla transformacional
570 millions of speakers

English

transformational rule
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिवर्तनकारी नियम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حكم التحويلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трансформационный правило
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

regra transformacional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রূপান্তরের নিয়ম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

règle de transformation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peraturan transformasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

transformative Regel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

変形規則
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

변형 규칙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aturan transformasional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quy tắc chuyển đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்றம் ஆட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिवर्तनिक नियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dönüşümsel kural
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

regola di trasformazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reguła transformacyjna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трансформаційний правило
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

regulă de transformare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετασχηματιστική κανόνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

transformasie reël
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

transformational regel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

transformativ regelen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of transformational rule

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE»

Discover the use of transformational rule in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to transformational rule and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Study of Language
Essentially what they do is take a specific part of structure, like a branch of the tree, away from one part of the tree diagram and attach it to a different part. As shown below, we use the symbol => to indicate that a transformational rule is being ...
George Yule, 2006
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English Ditransitive Verbs: Aspects of Theory, Description ...
The important point here is that at the level of syntax, a general transformational rule of dative movement continues to be postulated while exceptional cases are dealt with in the lexicon. One may approve of this transformational rule or not: ...
Joybrato Mukherjee, 2005
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Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program
The null hypothesis is that it can examine only the input to a given transformational rule application (in which a feature is unvalued) and the output of that same transformational rule application (in which the feature is now valued) . Crucially, this ...
Samuel Epstein, T. D. Seely, 2008
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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use
The transformational rule for forming interrogatives, for example, applies to a phrase-marker of the form (X,wh-, Y), where Xand Y are any expressions and wh- isawh- phrasesuch as who or which books; this rule moves the second term, wh-,  ...
Noam Chomsky, 1986
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Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science
... been assigned to the sentence when it is generated by the transformational grammar. Otherwise, the structural index of the reverse transformational rule to be applied first would not match the surface phrase-marker. In Kuno's procedure, on ...
Jacob T. Schwartz, American Mathematical Society
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Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the ...
for every word outside s, there is no link to any word of t – for every word outside t , there is no link to any word of s Given a hierarchical alignment, a transformational rule can be computed for each constituent of the source syntactic tree.
Yuji Matsumoto, 2006
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Principles of Diachronic Syntax
On the other hand, a transformational rule will make the necessary relationship, since transformational rules are blind to grammatical (and thematic) relations and any sequence np V NP will meet the requirements of the rule, regardless of the ...
Lightfoot, 1979
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Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar
Each transformational rule is defined by a structural analysis stating a condition on the class of phrase-markers to which it applies and specifying an analysis of the terminal string of this phrase-marker into successive parts. The specification of ...
Noam Chomsky, 1966
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Syntactic Analysis: The Basics
The term for the initial “abstract” structure is deep structure or D-str, and the term for its final form is surface structure or S-str. The AH rule that we have seen here was an early "classic” transformational rule, and there has since been much ...
Nicholas Sobin, 2010
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Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
We will now look briefly at the transformational rule which is introduced in Syntactic Structures to handle the concord of number ('singular' v. 'plural') that holds between the subject of the sentence and the verb. This will serve to illustrate some ...
John Lyons, 1968

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE»

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What the EPA's "Clean Power Plan" means for New York
While I really want to applaud New York for being a leader, these are very ambitious and, some would say, transformational rules that the EPA has come out with ... «North Country Public Radio, Jun 14»

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