Simple Active Declarative Sentence
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A simple active declarative sentence is a simple declarative sentence that is also an active sentence and contains no modifiers or connectives.
- AKA: Kernel Sentence, Active Simple Declarative Sentence.
- Context:
- Example(s):
- "I went home".
- “X is a problem.”
- “X is difficult.”
- “I enjoy X”
- Counter-Example(s):
- “I enjoy difficult problems."
- any Complex Active Declarative Sentence, such as: “We will stay indoors if it rains tomorrow.”
- any Complex Passive Declarative Sentence, such as: “If it rains tomorrow then we will stay indoors.”.
- See: Structured Language.
References
1997
- Random House Unabridged Dictionary©, 1997.
- kernel sentence: a simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences: The sentence “Good tests are short” is made from two kernel sentences: (1) “Tests are short.” (2) “(The) tests are good.”
- http://www.faqs.org/theories/Ja-Kn/Kernel-Sentence.html
- Proposed by Chomsky as part of his first version of TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE GRAMMAR.
- Now merely of historical importance.
- A basic simple active, affirmative, declarative sentence, to which obligatory TRANSFORMATIONS have been applied for number, tense, and so on, but no optional transformations (which would generate passive, negative, and so on).
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/315485/kernel-sentence
- Two rather different conceptions of kernel-sentences have been formalized in tranformational grammar: one by Harris and the other by Chomsky.
- For Harris, a kernel-sentence is a sentence that is not derived from any other sentence (or pair of sentences) by means of a tranformational rule.
- for Chomsky, as he originally defined the notion, a kernel-sentence is one that is generated in the grammar without the operation of any optional, as distinct from obligatory, transformations.
- ?
- kernel sentence. Term introduced by Chomsky and (Zellig) Harris in the 1950s for one of an irreducible set of simple sentences, to whose structures the remaining sentences of a language, simple and complex, were related by successive transformations . Thus the complex sentence The cake which Harry baked is nice can be related, by transformations which combine two separate structures, to the kernel sentences The cake is nice and Harry baked the cake .
1975
- (LaBelle, 1975) ⇒ Joseph L. LaBelle. (1975). “Errors Made in the Comprehension of Simple Active Declarative Sentences by Children.” In: Folia Phoniatr, 27(06).