I didn't study linguistics but I covered this in Computer Science and Philosophy of Language a long time ago. Here's my half remembered explanation:
A generative grammar is a set of rules for generating valid sentences in a language. So you start with a single symbol , and applying the rules (which basically tell you how and when you can replace symbols with other symbols) generates new sequences of symbols. A given sequence of symbols is a valid sentence if and only if it can be generated from the starting symbol by a series of applications of the rules of the grammar.
I didn't study linguistics but I covered this in Computer Science and Philosophy of Language a long time ago. Here's my half remembered explanation:
A generative grammar is a set of rules for generating valid sentences in a language. So you start with a single symbol , and applying the rules (which basically tell you how and when you can replace symbols with other symbols) generates new sequences of symbols. A given sequence of symbols is a valid sentence if and only if it can be generated from the starting symbol by a series of applications of the rules of the grammar.
Thanks for trying. Not entirely sure I really got that, but thanks nonetheless