转换生成语法对语言特点的描写

TG Grammar's Description of Some of the Features of Language

语言是人类交际的一种符号体系,它的特点之一是“可创性”,转换生成语法就是为了能系统地描写和解释人类语言的结构而发展形成的,它通过—套有限数目的转换规则,强调了生成一种语言的无限多的句子的可能性,并能揭示表层结构明显一致的句子之间存在于它们深层结构上的差别,因此它是语言学理论的最重要的发展之一。

Transformational-generative grammar has been developed for the systematic description and explanation of the structure of human language. It allows for an infinite variety of possible sentences in English through the application of a finite set of transformational rules, and it reveals the differences appearing in deep structures between sentences which are, in their surface structures, apparently similar. Transformational - generative grammar is one of the most important developments in linguistic theory.