Constructive vs Generative - What's the difference?
constructive | generative |
Relating to or causing construction.
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
(legal) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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As adjectives the difference between constructive and generative
is that constructive is relating to or causing construction while generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.constructive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) productiveAntonyms
* (relating to or causing construction) destructive * (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) destructiveDerived terms
* constructive criticism * constructive dismissal * constructive eviction * constructive notice * constructive logic * constructive trust * constructively * constructiveness * constructivism * deconstructive * inconstructive * unconstructive ----generative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.