transformational grammar

English

Noun

transformational grammar (countable and uncountable, plural transformational grammars)

1. (linguistics) A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.

Translations

system of grammar

• Arabic: النحو التوليدي
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉換語法／转换语法 (zhuǎnhuàn yǔfǎ)

• French: Grammaire transformationnelle f
• German: Transformationsgrammatik (de) m
• Japanese: 変形文法 (へんけいぶんぽう, henkei bunpō)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хувиргал хэлзүй (xuvirgal xelzüj)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠷᠭᠠᠯ
  ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
  ᠵᠦᠢ (qubirɣal kele ǰüi)

• Romanian: gramatică transformațională (ro) f
• Russian: трансформационная грамматика (transformacionnaja grammatika)