generative grammar

English

Noun

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.

Translations

system of rules

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生成語法／生成语法 (shēngchéng yǔfǎ)

• French: grammaire générative m
• German: generative Grammatik (de) m
• Hungarian: generatív nyelvtan
• Japanese: 生成文法 (せいせいぶんぽう, seisei bunpō)
• Mongolian: үүсгүүр хэлзүй (üüsgüür xelzüj) ᠡᠭᠦᠰᠭᠡᠭᠦᠷ
  ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
  ᠵᠦᠢ (egüsgegür kele ǰüi)
• Romanian: gramatică generativă (ro) f

general theory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生成語法／生成语法 (shēngchéng yǔfǎ)