TGT: transformational grammar tester

Abstract

Chomsky defines a generative grammar as one that; "attempts to characterize in the most neutral possible terms the knowledge of the language that provides the basis for actual use of language by a speaker-hearer." It is "a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences." The syntactic component of such a grammar specifies the well-formed strings of formatives (minimal syntactically functioning elements) in the language and assigns structures to them.