| 单词 | generative grammar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgenerative grammar generative grammar n. Linguistics the grammatical description of a language using a set of logical rules, formulated to be capable of generating the infinite number of possible sentences of that language; (also) the approach to the study of syntax which seeks to account for language through the formulation of such rules; cf. transformational adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > schools or theories of grammar > [noun] > other spec. universal grammar1751 recognition grammar1926 tagmemics1947 structural grammar1949 speculative grammar1951 generative grammar1959 generativism1965 standard theory1966 systemic grammar1967 case grammar1968 Montague grammar1972 1959 Word 15 233 A generative grammar, as Chomsky has shown, may be conveniently arranged in the form of a series of equation-like rules. 1977 Archivum Linguisticum 8 50 ‘Generative grammar’..is concerned with the description of rules for sentence-structures which include the phonologic level as well as the semantic one. 1989 Rhetoric Soc. Q. 19 111 A generative grammar is a global theory that defines a given language as the set of all its grammatical structures. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Apr. 60/4 The claim that generative grammar was a matter of rules was behind Chomsky's repeated claim that linguistics is a branch of psychology and that the subject provides a ‘window on the mind’. < as lemmas |
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