Generative vs Fertile - What's the difference?
generative | fertile |
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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(of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
(biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
(biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
(of an imagination etc) productive or prolific
As adjectives the difference between generative and fertile
is that generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing while fertile is capable of growing abundant crops; productive.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.