النحو التوليدي التحويلي المفاهيم النظرية، والمرتكزات، وآلية الحذف في البنية السطحية

Abstract

The generative-transformational theory was preceded by a number of linguistic theories and schools, most notably behaviorism, instrumentalism, structuralism, and distributionism. Given that behaviorism views the emergence of language as linked to the principle of stimulus and response, which focuses on the external form without paying attention to the feelings that arise from the linguistic event, and that instrumentalism is linked to utilitarianism and pragmatism, and that structuralism is not concerned with mental processes, focusing its attention on language as an independent phenomenon, separate from the human mind and the speaker, the generative-transformational theory, which developed from distributionism, was a convincing alternative, both formally and semantically, to these theories, as it addressed the generation of language in the deep layer and studied its transformations in the surface structure through transformational rules, of which deletion is one of the most important mechanisms, given its effective role in the process of phonetic economy and brevity, and saving time and muscular effort