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generative grammar

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generative grammar
n.
A linguistic theory that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that in an explicit and well-defined way specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences.
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
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Noun1.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
linguistics - the scientific study of language
syntax - studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
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generative grammar
n → generative Grammatik, Erzeugungsgrammatik f


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