Basic English Syntax with Exercises

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Rewrite rules describe what constituents a certain structure can be made up of. The rewrite rule DP → D NP means that what is on the left side of the arrow, DP, can be rewritten as a D and an NP. Generative grammar is a set of rewrite rules with the help of which all and only the grammatical expressions of the language can be formed.