1 A generic term for any generative grammar which uses transformations. 2 In a narrower sense, the theory developed by N.Chomsky. The goal of this theory is to illustrate the implicit knowledge of language. based on current language use, by a system of...

See also communicative competence, language acquisition, nativist approach to langauge acquisition Transformational grammar refers to the way in which language structures can be changed (or transformed) while keeping their essential meaning. The...

A term from transformational grammar, developed by N.Chomsky, to describe the underlying structure of a linguistic utterance. Deep structure specifies the grammatical relations and functions of the syntactic elements, as well as the linguistic meaning...

n. (TG) (more fully, Transformational Generative Grammar, or TGG) A theory of grammar conceived by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and elaborated by Chomsky and others during the succeeding decades. Chomsky’s ideas were originally laid out in the...

In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational-generative grammar (TGG), is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Chomskian tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the...