Generative vs Generant - What's the difference?
generative | generant |
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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As an adjective generative
is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.As a verb generant is
.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.