单词 | generative grammar |
释义 | generative grammarnoun Linguistics.a linguistic theory that attempts to describe the tacit knowledge that a native speaker has of a language by establishing a set of explicit, formalized rules that specify or generate all the possible grammatical sentences of a language, while excluding all unacceptable sentences.Compare transformational grammar. a set of such rules. Origin of generative grammarFirst recorded in 1955–60 Words nearby generative grammarGeneration XL, Generation Y, Generation Z, generative, generative cell, generative grammar, generative phonology, generative semantics, generative-transformational grammar, generativist, generator Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for generative grammargenerative grammar nouna description of a language in terms of explicit rules that ideally generate all and only the grammatical sentences of the languageCompare transformational grammar Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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