generative
English
Etymology
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From Middle English generatyve, generatyf, generatif. Compare French génératif.
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generative (comparative more generative, superlative most generative)
- Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
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- That generative particle.
- 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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having the power of generating
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German
Adjective
generative
- inflection of generativ:
Italian
Adjective
generative
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