transformational grammar

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Noun

transformational grammar (countable and uncountable, plural transformational grammars)

  1. (linguistics) 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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