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grammars
noun(gram-mar)
the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
a study of what is to be preferred and what avoided in inflection and syntax
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
the characteristic system of inflections and syntax of a language
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
a description in the form of a set of rules for producing the grammatical sentences of a language
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
transformational grammar
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
a grammar based on the theory that language consists of a series of hierarchically related strata linked together by representational rules
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
a grammar that generates the deep structures of a language and converts these to the surface structures by means of transformations
grammars
noun(gram-mar)
the study of general principles believed to underlie the grammatical phenomena of all languages; also : such principles viewed as part of an innate human capacity for learning a language

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