Transformationalism

For quite different reasons neither Chomsky nor Lakoff has offered good evidence for considering the Port-Royal Grammar to be an early essay in transformationalism, but the evidence they do offer raises many interesting questions about the interpretation of the Grammar (and the Logic) specifically, about the history of thought about language, and, more surprisingly, about the fundamental concepts of twentieth-century transformational grammar.

Thus one might speak here of syntactic transformationalism on the one hand and semantic transformationalism on the other.

It is certainly true that unconstrained transformationalism is incompatible with the basic fact that words constitute special morphological units that are distinct from phrases and sentences.

Their position denies the general revelation of God given in the other religions, while inclusive transformationalism acknowledges the relative usefulness and values that other religions have, even though they do not bring salvation.

Unlike ecumenism, transformationalism is not an expression of denominational uniformity, but an expression of interdenominational alliances.

Transformationalism may describe the reality of religion in America, but normatively speaking it fails to reveal anything about the quality or implications of those changes.

"That's why you need Transformationalism," he said. "Your mind has to evolve to match this permanent situation of permanent change. You've got to get rid of that instantaneous personality that was frozen in a previous cultural matrix that no longer exists...."

According to Mezirow (2000), transformationalism helps adults make sense of their environment so they can act upon it. This is a complex process in which the personalities of the teachers and learners interact with the educational setting and the political environment. Learners examine themselves and the beliefs they bring to the learning experience.