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transformational grammar

trans·for·ma·tion·al gram·mar (plural trans·for·ma·tion·al gram·mars)


noun 
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grammar with transformational rules: grammar that is based on the theory that language has a deep structure and that there are rules that transform the deep structure into the surface structure. It uses transformational rules to describe a language.

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