Basic and derived structures
Geoffrey Leech, Margaret Deuchar, Robert Hoogenraad · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 1982
Chapters 2 to 6 have outlined a method of parsing English sentences. In this final chapter of Part B, we concentrate on some difficulties you are likely to meet when you apply this parsing method to sentences you meet in texts. As we do this, we shall sketch in an extra dimension to the study of grammar: that is, the study of what we may call BASIC and DERIVED structures. This will enable us to deal with a range of grammatical patterns which do not fit neatly into the view of grammar so far presented. But first, let us take stock of what has been done up to now.