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transformational grammars

transformational grammars is the plural of transformational grammar.

Meaning of transformational grammar

Noun

transformational grammar (countable and uncountable, plural transformational grammars)

  1. 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.

Questions about transformational grammars

What is transformational grammars the plural of?
Transformational grammars is the plural of transformational grammar.

Words near transformational grammars in the dictionary

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

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