transformational (generative) grammar
transformational (generative) grammar
Definition
☆ transformational (generative) grammar
noun
Linguis. a system of linguistic analysis consisting of a set of rules that generate basic syntactic structures, in the form of simple independent clauses, and a set of transformational rules that operate on those structures so as to produce questions, complex sentences, etc. and thus to account for every possible sentence of a language
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