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Site: Plateforme pédagogique de l'Université Sétif2
Course: Introduction to Linguistics (F322)
Glossary: The Principal Glossary
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Generative grammar

Generative grammar is a conceptual model whose central tenet is that language is a property for which human beings are biologically prewired.The name ‘generative grammar’ is used to refer to this model since speakers are assumed to possess a grammar capable of generating all the possible sentences in their language (while excluding all the impossible ones).