"transformational grammar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: transformational grammars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: transformational grammar Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (system of grammar): النحو التوليدي (Arabic), 轉換語法 (Chinese Mandarin), 转换语法 (zhuǎnhuàn yǔfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), Grammaire transformationnelle [feminine] (French), Transformationsgrammatik [masculine] (German), 変形文法 (henkei bunpō) (alt: へんけいぶんぽう) (Japanese), хувиргал хэлзүй (xuvirgal xelzüj) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠷᠭᠠᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ ᠵᠦᠢ (qubirɣal kele ǰüi) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), gramatică transformațională [feminine] (Romanian), трансформационная грамматика (transformacionnaja grammatika) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-transformational_grammar-en-noun-ZI22YYIz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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