generative grammar

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generative grammar (countable and uncountable, plural generative grammars)

  1. (linguistics, countable) A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
  2. (linguistics, uncountable) The general theory dealing with grammar as constructed by such rules.

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