Sentence examples for generative grammar from inspiring English sources

Gold's explicit equation of acquiring a language with identifying a generative grammar that exactly generates it naturally makes his work seem relevant to generative Essentialists (though even for them, his results do not provide anything like a sufficient reason for adopting the linguistic nativist position).

ii) The French output strings are generated without the explicit use of a generative grammar.

A generative grammar of a particular language is a system of rules that generates all (and only) the sentences of that language, along with a characterization of how each sentence sounds and what it means.

See generative grammar; transformational grammar.

Introduces methods for theorizing about meaning within generative grammar.

Syntactic theory and generative grammar: 384 and LINGUIST 231.

The most significant 20th-century development in the field of historical and comparative linguistics came from the theory of generative grammar (see above Transformational-generative grammar).

The most significant development in linguistic theory and research in the 20th century was the rise of generative grammar, and, more especially, of transformational-generative grammar, or transformational grammar, as it came to be known.

Algebraic linguistics derives principally from the work of Chomsky in the field of generative grammar (see above Chomsky's grammar).

For all its empirical weaknesses, Chomskian generative grammar has ruled the linguistic world for forty years.

There are many different kinds of generative grammar, including transformational grammar as developed by Noam Chomsky from the mid-1950s.