Generative grammar

Generative grammar, a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all

(and only) the sentencesof a language—i.e., of the language that it generates.
There are many different kinds of generative grammar,
including transformational grammar as developed by Noam Chomsky from the
mid-1950s. Linguists have disagreed as to which, if any, of these different
kinds of generative grammar serves as the best model for the description of
natural languages.
Generative grammars do not merely distinguish the grammatical sentence of
a language from ungrammatical sequences of words of the same language;
they also provide a structural description, or syntactic analysis, for each of the
grammatical sentences. The structural descriptions provided by a generative
grammar are comparable with, but more precisely formulated than, the
analyses that result from the traditional practice of parsing sentences in terms
of the parts of speech.