transformational generative grammar

noun

transformational grammar

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Meanings

nountransformational generative grammar (plural transformational generative grammars)

plural transformational generative grammars · alternative transformational-generative grammar

  1. transformational grammar

    Much ground has been lost and many fine minds blunted on the complications of transformational generative grammar.

    1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 155
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