Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

generative grammar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

Syllables: gen-er-a-tive -gram-mar
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.

Countable

noun

The general theory dealing with grammar as constructed by such rules.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

generative grammars (plural)

Phrases

transformational generative grammar

Questions

What does generative grammar mean?: A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.

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