transformational grammar
transformational grammar
nounDefinition of TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
: a grammar that generates the deep structures of a language and converts these to the surface structures by means of transformations
First Known Use of TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
1961
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