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generative grammar
generative grammarn.1. A linguistic theory that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences.2. A grammar constructed according to this theory.generative grammar n (Linguistics) a description of a language in terms of explicit rules that ideally generate all and only the grammatical sentences of the language. Compare transformational grammar gen′erative gram′mar
n. 1. a linguistic theory that attempts to describe the tacit knowledge a native speaker has of a language by establishing a set of formal rules that generate all the possible grammatical sentences of a language, while excluding all unacceptable sentences. Compare transformational grammar. 2. a set of such rules. [1955–60] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | generative grammar - (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural descriptionlinguistics - the scientific study of languagesyntax - studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences |
Translationsgenerative grammar
generative grammar[′jen·rəd·iv ′gram·ər] (computer science) A set of rules that describes the valid expressions in a formal language on the basis of a set of the parts of speech (formally called the set of metavariables or phrase names) and the alphabet or character set of the language. generative grammar
Related to generative grammar: universal grammarWords related to generative grammarnoun (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural descriptionRelated Words |