English Explanatory Dictionary

transformational grammar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.

Word forms

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