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There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.
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Grammaticalness — Grammatical Gram*mat ic*al, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one s letters, from ? a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See {Grammar}.] 1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
grammaticalness — noun see grammatical … New Collegiate Dictionary
grammaticalness — gram·mat·i·cal·ness … English syllables
grammaticalness — noun see grammatical … Useful english dictionary
Transformational grammar — In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational generative grammar (TGG), is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Chomskyan tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the… … Wikipedia
gram|mat|i|cal|i|ty — «gruh MAT uh KAL uh tee», noun. 1. = grammaticalness. (Cf. ↑grammaticalness) 2. Linguistics. the quality of being grammatically acceptable to a native speaker or speakers: »If Chomsky established grammaticality as an effective criterion, as… … Useful english dictionary
grammatical — adjective Date: 1530 1. of or relating to grammar 2. conforming to the rules of grammar < a grammatical sentence > • grammaticality noun • grammatically adverb • grammaticalness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously — Approximate X Bar representation of Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. See phrase structure rules. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that… … Wikipedia
Chomskybot — The Chomskybot is a program that generates paragraphs which appear similar to those in the corpus of Noam Chomsky s linguistic works, but are humorously devoid of any meaning, by combining at random phrases taken from Chomsky s actual works. The… … Wikipedia
grammaticality — /greuh mat i kal i tee/, n. the state or quality of being grammatical. Also, grammaticalness /greuh mat i keuhl nis/. [1960 65; GRAMMATICAL + ITY] * * * … Universalium
