generative grammar (English, noun)
expansion: generative grammar (countable and uncountable, plural generative grammars)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
tags: countable
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The general theory dealing with grammar as constructed by such rules.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: generative grammars
tags: plural