Generative Grammar
Generative
grammar, a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all (and only) the
sentences of a language—i.e., of the language that it generates. There are many different kinds of generative
grammar, including transformational grammar as developed by Noam Chomsky from the mid-1950s. Linguists have
disagreed as to which, if any, of these different kinds of generative grammar
serves as the best model for the description of natural languages.
Generative grammars do not
merely distinguish the grammatical sentence of a language from ungrammatical
sequences of words of the same language; they also provide a structural
description, or syntactic analysis, for each of the grammatical sentences. The
structural descriptions provided by a generative grammar are comparable with,
but more precisely formulated than, the analyses that result from the
traditional practice of parsing sentences in terms of the parts of speech.
(Source - Britannica Encyclopaedia)
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