transformational grammar

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|linguistics}} A [[generative]] [[grammar]], especially of a [[natural language]], developed in the [[Chomskyan]] tradition of [[phrase structure grammar]]s (as opposed to [[dependency grammar]]s), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.

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