Underlying each sentence of the language there is a sequence of base Phrase-markers, each generated by the base of the syntactic component. I shall refer to this sequence as the 'basis' of the sentence that it underlies. - Chomsky (1969), a pag.17 The basis of the sentence is the sequence of base Phrase-markers that constitute the terminal points of the tree-diagram. - Chomsky (1969), a pag.131
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