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A-Z 941Referenceshistorical grammarsprimacy relationRelation described by Langacker (1966) between nodes in a tree diagram: two nodes A<strong>and</strong> B are in a relation <strong>of</strong> primacy, if (a) in the linear chain node A precedes node B <strong>and</strong>(b) node A comm<strong>and</strong>s node B, i.e. neither A nor B dominate each other, <strong>and</strong> the S-nodewhich immediately dominates node A also dominates the node B. See the following treediagram, in which node A precedes node B (precedence relation) <strong>and</strong> node A comm<strong>and</strong>sthe nodes X <strong>and</strong> B:The primacy relation plays an important part in transformation processes such aspronominalization (see Langacker), but also generally in constraints for the application <strong>of</strong>rules (Reis 1974).ReferencesLangacker, R.W. 1966. On pronominalization <strong>and</strong> the chain <strong>of</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>. In D.A.Reibel <strong>and</strong> S.A.Schane (eds), Modern studies in English: readings in transformational grammar. EnglewoodCliffs, NJ. 160–86.Reis, M. 1974. Syntaktische Hauptsatzprivilegien und das Problem der deutschen Wortstellung.ZGL 2.299–327.transformational grammar

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