Editing Generative grammar (section)

=== Cognitive science ===

Generative grammar studies language as part of [[cognitive science]]. Thus, research in the generative tradition involves formulating and testing hypotheses about the mental processes that allow humans to use language.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carnie|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Carnie|title=Syntax: A Generative Introduction |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-22543-0|pages=4-6,8}}</ref><ref name ="WasowHandbookMental">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Generative Grammar|encyclopedia=The Handbook of Linguistics|year=2003|last=Wasow|first=Thomas|author-link=Tom Wasow|editor-last1=Aronoff|editor-first1=Mark|editor-last2=Ress-Miller|editor-first2=Janie|publisher= Blackwell|url=https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/WWW_Content/9780631204978/12.pdf|doi=10.1002/9780470756409.ch12|pages=295-296,299-300}}</ref><ref name = "AdgerCogSci">{{cite book |last=Adger|first=David|author-link=David Adger|year=2003|title=Core syntax: A minimalist approach|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=14|isbn=978-0199243709}}</ref>

Like other approaches in linguistics, generative grammar engages in [[linguistic description]] rather than [[linguistic prescriptivism|linguistic prescription]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carnie|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Carnie|title=Syntax: A Generative Introduction|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-22543-0|page=8}}</ref><ref name ="WasowHandbookPreDes">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Generative Grammar|encyclopedia=The Handbook of Linguistics|year=2003|last=Wasow|first=Thomas|author-link=Tom Wasow|editor-last1=Aronoff|editor-first1=Mark|editor-last2=Ress-Miller|editor-first2=Janie|publisher= Blackwell|url=https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/WWW_Content/9780631204978/12.pdf|doi=10.1002/9780470756409.ch12|pages=295,297}}</ref>