Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun generative_grammar

1 sense of generative grammar

Sense 1
generative grammar -- ((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)
       => syntax -- (studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences)