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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English generatyve, generatyf, generatif. Compare French génératif.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
generative (comparative more generative, superlative most generative)
- Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
- That generative particle. — Bentley
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:
- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.
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Translations[edit]
having the power of generating
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German[edit]
Adjective[edit]
generative
- inflected form of generativ
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
generative
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Categories:
- English terms derived from the PIE root *ǵenh₁-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English 4-syllable words
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- German non-lemma forms
- German adjective forms
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian adjective forms
