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

transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) was the earliest model of grammar proposed within the research tradition of generative grammar...

and meaning (semantics). Diverse approaches, such as generative grammar and functional grammar, offer unique perspectives on syntax, reflecting its complexity...

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

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

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

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

GLOW is an international organization to further the study of generative grammar, founded in 1977 and based in the Netherlands. Its activities include...

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

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...

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

Model-theoretic grammars, also known as constraint-based grammars, contrast with generative grammars in the way they define sets of sentences: they state...

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

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

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

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

in Generative Grammar is a 1994 book by Michael Kenstowicz in which the author provides an introduction to phonology in the framework of generative grammar...

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...

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

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

developed, including within the model of dependency grammar and generative grammar. Dependency grammar (DG) can accommodate the V2 phenomenon simply by stipulating...

transformational generative grammar in particular. Transformational generative grammar states that sentences are formed using the standard generative grammar rules...

linguistic performance. Generative grammar tries to provide an adequate model of linguistic competence. When such a grammar can generate (i.e. provide...

*the children so sick would be ungrammatical. In the early days of generative grammar, new conceptions of the clause were emerging. Paul Postal and Noam...

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

sleep furiously. The concept of well-formedness was developed in generative grammar during the twentieth century. Sometimes native speakers of a language...

Semantics in generative grammar. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19713-3. Gennaro Chierchia; Sally McConnell-Ginet (2000). Meaning and grammar: an introduction...

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

smallest meaningful components, influencing key linguistic theories like generative grammar and distributionalism. Although no longer at the forefront of modern...

In generative grammar, non-configurational languages are languages characterized by a flat phrase structure, which allows syntactically discontinuous expressions...