STRUCTURAL RELATIVITY IN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The hierarchical syntactrc structures are considered as linear algebraic formulae Word order being language-specific, the formulae do not consider word order a universal deep-structure feature. The deep-structure is considered to be amor- , phous. The verb, a primitive concept, is taken as the nucleus for the defnit~o12 of other syntactic elements and structures.The Sentence is considered to be merely a conjunct verb,The traditional (as well as modern Chomskyan) Subject Predicate (Np + ~ p ) division of a sentence is considered to be only one of the many alternative Itsays of ' conjunct verb formation Conjunct verbs could be either lexically conjunct or syntactical& conhnct depending upon the transformational contexi.The transformation of Iexical verbs into conjunct modal auxiliaries under cerjait~ conditions is discussed.The relation between logical and linguistic elements and their fusion into pseudolinguistic elements are discussed.In short, the main subject of discussion is the ' intralinguistic ' and ' interlinguistic ' relativity in language structures.