generativesyntax
Generative syntax is a theoretical framework within linguistics that studies how sentences are generated by the human syntactic faculty. It treats syntax as a component of linguistic competence and seeks to specify formal rules and representations that can produce the set of grammatical sentences while excluding ungrammatical ones.
Originating with Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957), the field evolved through Transformational-Generative Grammar in the 1960s
Core concepts include hierarchical phrase structure representations, structure-building operations, movement and transformation, and feature checking that
Researchers test predictions against judgments from native speakers, typological data, and corpora, often using formal tree
Generative syntax remains a central but debated facet of linguistic theory. Critics advance alternative approaches, such