"Generative grammar, or generativism, is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure."
This type of syntax is concerned with generating sentences, phrases, and words through a system of rules.
"Generative grammar considers grammar as a system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language."
"The difference from structural and functional models is that the object is base-generated within the verb phrase in generative grammar."
"A purportedly cognitive structure thought of as being a part of a universal grammar, a syntactic structure which is caused by a genetic mutation in humans."
"That is, the subject and the verb phrase appearing as independent constituents."
"The object placed within the verb phrase."
"A main point of interest remains in how to appropriately analyze Wh-movement and other cases where the subject appears to separate the verb from the object."
"Although claimed by generativists as a cognitively real structure, neuroscience has found no evidence for it."
"Generative grammar encompasses proposed models of linguistic cognition."
"There is still no specific indication that these are quite correct."
"Recent arguments have been made that the success of large language models undermine key claims of generative syntax because they are based on markedly different assumptions, including gradient probability and memorized constructions."
"Out-perform generative theories both in syntactic structure and in integration with cognition and neuroscience."
"Generative grammar is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguistics, deriving ultimately from glossematics."
"It is a system of explicit rules that may apply repeatedly to generate an indefinite number of sentences which can be as long as one wants them to be."
"Generative grammar regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesized innate grammatical structure."
"Generativists have created numerous theories to make the NP VP (NP) analysis work in natural language description."
"Wh-movement is one of the cases where the subject appears to separate the verb from the object."
"That is, the subject and the verb phrase appearing as independent constituents."
"Neuroscience has found no evidence for it [cognitively real structure proposed by generative grammar]."
"Large language models undermine key claims of generative syntax because they are based on markedly different assumptions, including gradient probability and memorized constructions."