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transformational-generative grammar

transformational-generative grammar is the alternative spelling of transformational generative grammar.

Meaning of transformational generative grammar

Noun

transformational generative grammar (plural transformational generative grammars)

  1. transformational grammar
    • Much ground has been lost and many fine minds blunted on the complications of transformational generative grammar.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 155

Forms of transformational-generative grammar

pluraltransformational-generative grammars

Questions about transformational-generative grammar

What is transformational-generative grammar the alternative spelling of?
Transformational-generative grammar is the alternative spelling of transformational generative grammar.

Words near transformational-generative grammar in the dictionary

  1. transformational generative grammars
  2. transformational grammar
  3. transformational grammars
  4. transformational rule
  5. transformational rules
  6. transformational-generative grammar
  7. transformational-generative grammars
  8. transformationalism
  9. transformationalist
  10. transformationalists
  11. transformationality

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