a set of universal principles posited as underlying the grammars of all natural languages; spec. (in later use) such principles regarded as…

a grammar whose pre-built rules find matches in the given sentences of a corpus; cf. generative grammar n. at generative, adj. compounds.

With singular agreement. The study and description of language in terms of tagmemes; spec. a school of linguistic analysis, based on the work of…

the method of studying or teaching language by analysing its grammatical structure (according to structural linguistic principles); a grammar…

a late medieval scholastic grammatical system in which the structure of language is interpreted through scholastic philosophy in terms of our…

the grammatical description of a language using a set of logical rules, formulated to be capable of generating the infinite number of possible…

The theory or application of generative grammar. Cf. generative grammar n. at generative, adj. compounds.

a model of generative grammar that distinguishes between two different representations of a sentence: deep structure (see deep structure n. at deep…

(more fully systemic functional grammar) an approach to grammar developed within systemic linguistics in which description is founded on the…

a model of grammar in which the structure of sentences is analysed in terms of semantic case relationships.

A linguistic theory which maintains that a grammar is built up from individual syntactic units, each of which has a corresponding semantic unit…