CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The main principle of generative grammar is that all humans are born with an innate capacity for language and that this capacity shapes the rules for what is considered “correct” grammar in a language. The idea of an innate language capacity-or a “universal grammar"-is not accepted by all linguists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Generative grammars do not merely distinguish the grammatical sentence of a language from ungrammatical sequences of words of the same language; they also provide a structural description, or syntactic analysis, for each of the grammatical sentences.

Detailed explanation-3: -In English, for example, we put the subject of a sentence before its verb. This is the kind of information encoded in generative rules. These rules are thought to generate the sentences of a language, hence the name generative grammar. You can think of these rules as being like the command lines in a computer program.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous example of generative grammar is by its theoretical founder, Noam Chomsky. It is the following sentence. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” While non-sensical in the its meaning, it makes sense grammatically. This sentence has become the standard by which his theory has been evaluated.