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Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية النحو التوليدي
Deutsch Transformationsgrammatik
Français Grammaire transformationnelle
日本語 変形文法
Português gramática transformacional
Română gramatică transformațională
Русский трансформационная грамматика

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

transformational rule transformational-generative grammar transformationalism transformationalist transformationality transformationism

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