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Generative Grammar

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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 description

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Generative Grammar

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noun
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

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Generative Grammar

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Linguistics
a system of linguistic analysis consisting of a limited, unchanging set of rules employing a list of symbols and words to generate or describe every possible sentence in a language
see also transformational (generative) grammar

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Generative Grammar

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n.
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.

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