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generative grammar
noun
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.
generative grammar
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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of generative grammar1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
To paraphrase the terminology of generative grammars, it was a limited war language, with not too many possible war sentences.
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