GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("generative grammar" is a kind of...):

syntax (studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

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