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Generative grammar   /dʒˈɛnərətɪv grˈæmər/   Listen
Generative grammar

noun
1.
(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description.






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