Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transformational grammar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: trans-for-ma-tion-al -gram-mar
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

transformational grammars (plural)

Questions

What does transformational grammar mean?: 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.

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