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English noun: generative grammar

1. generative grammar (cognition) (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


Broader (hypernym)syntax


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