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| | Good Practice Guide | Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Generative Grammar is an approach to dealing with linguistic phenomena which assumes that these phenomena are amenable to formal analysis, and, in fact, can be best explained in such terms. |
 | | It is therefore opposed, at least in part, to approaches which take a functional perspective, and which assume that linguistic phenomena can be analysed in terms of extra-linguistic pressures (the fact that language can be used to communicate, the signifier-signifiee relationship, etc.). |
 | | The latter approaches are best represented in the UK by Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), and its successor Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG); by Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) and by various forms of Categorial Grammar (CG). |
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