Meaning Of The Word Generative grammar

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Generative grammar Meaning

Generative grammar Definition
Generative grammar Definition

What's The Definition Of Generative grammar?

generative grammar in American English
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
noun: 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 al

generative grammar in British English
noun: a description of a language in terms of explicit rules that ideally generate all and only the grammatical sentences of the language

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