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NOUN (1)

1. (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description;


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

generative grammar
    n 1: (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in
         terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and
         only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a
         language and assigns them all the correct structural
         description