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generative grammarFinite set of formal rules that will produce all the grammatical sentences of a language. The idea of a generative grammar was first definitively articulated by Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures (1957). The generative grammarian's task is ideally not just to define the interrelation of elements in a particular language, but also to characterize universal grammar—that is, the set of rules and principles intrinsic to all natural languages, which are thought to be an innate endowment of the human intellect. See also grammar, syntax. generative grammar [′jen·rəd·iv ′gram·ər] (computer science) A set of rules that describes the valid expressions in a formal language on the basis of a set of the parts of speech (formally called the set of metavariables or phrase names) and the alphabet or character set of the language. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Those developments were to result in the establishment of generative grammar as the received linguistic theory and the rejection of the behaviourist-inspired structural linguistics and, to cut a long story very short, in the acceptance of foreign and second language learning Not as the acquiring of a new set of habits but as a creative construction process (Kennedy & Holmes 1976; Krashen 1981) akin to the acquisition of the L1. Before joining the business world, DePalma was a member of academe as a linguist specializing in generative grammar, computational linguistics, and the historical phonology of Slavic languages. |
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