Concept information
Preferred term
generative grammar
Definition
- Generative grammar is a theory of language that is generally said to have made its appearance in 1957, with Noam Chomsky'sSyntactic Structures. It is often contrasted with structural or taxonomic grammars. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Generative Grammar]
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Entry terms
- generative linguistics
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/generative_grammar
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