- transformational grammar
- noun Date: 1961 a grammar that generates the deep structures of a language and converts these to the surface structures by means of transformations
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transformational grammar
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transformational grammar — /trænsfəˈmeɪʃənəl græmə/ (say transfuh mayshuhnuhl gramuh) noun a grammar which uses transformational rules in its description of a language …
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transformational grammar — noun Linguistics grammar which describes a language in terms of transformations applied to an underlying deep structure in order to generate the surface structure of sentences which can actually occur … English new terms dictionary
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transformational (generative) grammar — ☆ transformational (generative) grammar or transformational grammar n. Linguis. a system of linguistic analysis consisting of a set of rules that generate basic syntactic structures, in the form of simple independent clauses, and a set of… … Universalium
transformational (generative) grammar — ☆ transformational (generative) grammar or transformational grammar n. Linguis. a system of linguistic analysis consisting of a set of rules that generate basic syntactic structures, in the form of simple independent clauses, and a set of… … English World dictionary
