Question on the English Lingustics

English as a Second Language What do you want to talk about?
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Dear Alan,
Here is a question I met when learning the English Lingustics.

Combine the following indicidual rules into one.

  1. A->R
    A->RS
    A->RT
    A->RST

  2. X->LN
    X->LMN
    X->MN
    X->N

  3. Y->E
    Y->FG
    Y->FH
    Y->FGH
    Y->FJ
    Y->FJK
    Y->FK

Best regards,Minnie

2

There has to be more context to his, Minnie, or else you were supposed to write it in IPA but didn’t.

3

What do all of these stand for?
What does “X” or “FGH” mean ?

4

The question I posted before is according to the chapter I am learning:Syntax. It shows me IC analysis,labled IC Annalysis,phrase markers and lableled bracheting. What you are asking me is just what I am wondering. Please also check theory of Constituency and Dependency,TG Grammar,Phrase structure rules,and Transformational rules. The question I asked above is one of the exercise of the chapter. Please do some search and help me with it.Thanks! Minnie

5

Which book are you using, Minnie?

MrP

6

The book I’m learning is English Linguistics: An Introduction,written by Wang Yongxiang and Zhi Yongbi, published in Nanjing Normal University Press.