{"id":8041,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generative_grammar_approach\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:23","slug":"generative_grammar_approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generative_grammar_approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative grammar approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical linguistic framework based on ideas promoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/chomskydotinfo.blogspot.co.uk\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/chomskydotinfo.blogspot.co.uk\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noam Chomsky<\/a> in the 1950s. &nbsp;A generative grammar attempts to describe a native speaker&#8217;s tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules or constraints that specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of the language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences. &nbsp;Grammatical structure is assumed to be autonomous (i.e., determined by domain-specific principles and independent of meaning or more general cognitive or communicative pressures). &nbsp;Universal rules or constraints (&#8216;Universal Grammar&#8217;) are hypothesized to be innate, and to guide children in acquiring the grammar of any particular language. &nbsp;Stands in contrast to the cognitive-functionalist approach to language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"constraint\">Constraint<\/a>, Cognitive-functional approach, <a href=\"competence_-linguistics-\">Competence (linguistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"domain_specificity\">Domain specificity<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistics\">Linguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"parameter_-linguistics-\">Parameter (linguistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"systemic_functional_linguistics\">Systemic functional linguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"transformational_grammar_approach\">Transformational grammar approach<\/a>, <a href=\"universalism\">Universalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical linguistic framework based on ideas promoted by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s. &nbsp;A generative grammar attempts to describe a native speaker&#8217;s tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules or constraints that specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of the language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences. &nbsp;Grammatical structure is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generative_grammar_approach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Generative grammar approach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}