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Re: generative grammar
From:
"Dennis s. Lebofsky" <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:08:04 -0500
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My understanding is that the term <generative> derives from the aim of the
grammar to "generate" (i.e., produce) all the possible grammatical
sentences of English.  I don't have my copy of <Syntactic Structures>
handy but would bet that Chomsky makes some such statement early in the
work.
Dennis Lebofsky, Temple University

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