Generative Grammar - Frameworks

Frameworks

There are a number of different approaches to generative grammar. Common to all is the effort to come up with a set of rules or principles that formally defines each and every one of the members of the set of well-formed expressions of a natural language. The term generative grammar has been associated with at least the following schools of linguistics:

  • Transformational grammar (TG)
    • Standard Theory (ST)
    • Extended Standard Theory (EST)
    • Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST)
    • Principles and Parameters Theory (P&P)
      • Government and Binding Theory (GB)
      • Minimalist Program (MP)
  • Monostratal (or non-transformational) grammars
    • Relational Grammar (RG)
    • Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
    • Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG)
    • Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
    • Categorial Grammar
    • Tree-Adjoining Grammar

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