a reference to Chomsky’s ‘deep structure’ in linguistic study- that syntactic and semantic structures are linked together. For example, slight changes in sentence structure can still mean the same or similar thing. ‘Chris is loved by Pat’ or ‘Pat loves Chris’.
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In theoretical linguistics, a generative grammar refers to a particular approach to the study of syntax. A generative grammar of a language attempts to give a set of rules that will correctly predict which combinations of words will form grammatical sentences. In most approaches to generative grammar, the rules will also predict the morphology of ...
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a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all (and only) the sentences of a language—i.e., of the language that it generates. There are ... [5 related articles]
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Another term for transformational grammar.
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Generative grammar is 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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noun (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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