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Transformation
Analogously to Chomsky's notion of 'transformational grammar', European structuralists such as Lévi-Strauss argued that new structural patterns within a culture are generated from existing ones through formal 'rules of transformation' based on systematic similarities, equivalences or parallels, or alternatively, symmetrical inversions.
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