Editing Generative grammar (section)

=== Syntax ===

Syntax studies the rule systems which combine smaller units such as [[morphemes]] into larger units such as [[phrase]]s and [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carnie|first=Andrew|title=Syntax: A Generative Introduction|author-link=Andrew Carnie|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-22543-0|page=25}}</ref> Within generative syntax, prominent approaches include [[Minimalist program|Minimalism]], [[Government and binding theory]], [[Lexical Functional Grammar|Lexical-functional grammar]] (LFG), and [[Head-driven phrase structure grammar]] (HPSG).<ref name=carnie_p5/>