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Generative grammar

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  1. 1
    A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language. countable
  2. 2
    (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 wordnet
  3. 3
    The general theory dealing with grammar as constructed by such rules. uncountable

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