The purpose of this paper is to explain the scope of the military command thro-ugh the investigation of some of english transformational rules such as Pronominal-ization, Reflexivization, Movement rules, and Negation constraint.
The following assumpti...
The purpose of this paper is to explain the scope of the military command thro-ugh the investigation of some of english transformational rules such as Pronominal-ization, Reflexivization, Movement rules, and Negation constraint.
The following assumptions are made to correlate the military command with Engl-ish transformations:
(1) A military unit is similar to a sentence.
(2) A commander of a unit is similar to a subject of a sentence.
(3) a military command is similar to application of a transformational rule.
There is a close connection between language and thought. Without the association of thought and sounds the world of images can not pass into the world of concepts; that is, there can be no true thinking. Since a military command is a special expr-ession of thinking, there is a close relation between military command and language.
In transformations, there are "singulary" transformations and "embedding" rules. The former rules can essentially apply only within a single sentence, The latter rules, however, can take two simple structures into account simultaneously provided that the one is nested in the other. An embedding rule can thus reach down into a subordinate clause but can only reach down one echelon of embedding. English also has an extraposition that must be limited to two echelons of embedding.
From the assumptions and the applicability of transformations, the following con-clusions are drawn : the most desirable command in the military is to command the first subordinate commander, but in special case, a commander can take command of the second subordinate commander.