ˈgenerativist
[f. generative a. + -ist.]
One who employs the methods of generative grammar.
| 1965 Amer. Speech XL. 289 This seems to allow generativists a token amount of equal time, but it is clear that they are ‘the other party’. 1967 Word XXIII. 47 Since generativists began to turn to the concept of deep grammar as input to the transformational rules that produce ‘surface’ sentences. |