Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models...

linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of natural languages...

Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker's linguistic capabilities. These models, or "formal grammars"...

Oxford: Blackwell. Harrocks, G. (1987). Generative Grammar. London: Longman. Huddleston, R. (1988). English grammar: An outline. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

cognitive science in the 1970s but called his model transformational or generative grammar. Having been engaged with Chomsky in the linguistic wars, George Lakoff...

parse tree in computer science, and as its deep structure in generative grammar). A grammar mainly consists of a set of production rules, rewriting rules...

innate. Within generative grammar, it is generally accepted that there must be some such features, and one of the goals of generative research is to formulate...

Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program...

cross-linguistically. Much of such work has been done within the framework of generative grammar, which holds that syntax depends on a genetic endowment common to...

generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed to both the existence of an innate universal grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics)...

Generative systems, systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns which can be extremely varied and unpredictable Language Generative grammar,...

contemporary developments in early generative grammar. In it, Chomsky introduced his idea of a transformational generative grammar, succinctly synthesizing and...

integration of the mathematical linguistics (in the form of Chomskyan generative grammar) with neuroscience. Darwinism inspired many researchers to study language...

Generative literature is poetry or fiction that is automatically generated, often using computers. It is a genre of electronic literature, and also related...

complex process than many have proposed. Although Chomsky's theory of a generative grammar has been enormously influential in the field of linguistics since...

the study of syntax in the Chomskyan tradition of transformational generative grammar. The deep structure of a linguistic expression is a theoretical construct...

meanings rather than the other way around. Generative semantics developed out of transformational generative grammar in the mid-1960s, but stood in opposition...

in systematic ways, say by relaxing certain conditions of core grammar. Some generative researchers have applied markedness to second-language acquisition...

as opposed to the dependency relation of dependency grammars. In Chomsky's generative grammar framework, the syntax of natural language was described...

participant is usually said to be an argument of the predicate. In generative grammar, a theta role or θ-role is the formal device for representing syntactic...

Völkerpsychologie in Saussure's contemporary context; and in a later context, generative grammar and cognitive linguistics. Saussure's influence was restricted to...

presented a deeper, more extensive reformulation of transformational generative grammar (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory that he had introduced in the...

Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky. It attempts to capture the structure...

retrieved 2022-12-30 Irene Heim; Angelika Kratzer (1998). Semantics in generative grammar. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-631-19713-3. Stalnaker, Robert...

generative music. Lerdahl and Jackendoff's publication described a generative grammar for homophonic tonal music, based partially on a Schenkerian model...

Cognitive grammar / Cognitive linguistics Construction grammar Fluid Construction Grammar Word grammar Generative grammar: Transformational grammar (1960s)...

for this office. The term anaphor is used in a special way in the generative grammar tradition. Here it denotes what would normally be called a reflexive...

knowing which theory applies in context. In phrase structure grammars such as generative grammar, the verb phrase is one headed by a verb. It may be composed...

Despite a shift in focus in the 20th century towards formalism and generative grammar, which studies the universal properties of language, historical research...

to grammar are theories of grammar that relate grammar to mental processes and structures in human cognition. While Chomsky's theories of generative grammar...