Question

The capacity of a grammar to generate a proper structural description of sentence is called:

• A. Weak generative capacity
• B. Strong generative capacity
• C. Neutral generative capacity
• D. None of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Strong generative capacity

• Strong generative capacity refers to a grammar's ability to generate both:

  • The correct strings (sentences) of a language, and

  • Their structural descriptions (like phrase structure trees or syntactic relationships).

• This is different from:

  • Weak generative capacity, which only generates the correct linear strings of words without specifying any structural analysis.