From 1950s onwards the American Linguist N.Ch. established a number of objectives.

Central to Chomsys approach is

notion of the well-formed sentences. Any theory capable of producing well-formed sentences and rejecting ill-formed
sentences is referred to as Generative Grammar. So we look at first: sentences, the notion of competence, and at last
components.

A. There are infinitely many sentences of a language. In other words the number of sentences of a language is infinite.
Two principles are responsible for this. The first one is called:
Creativity, any native speaker is cable of understanding and producing new sentences. This capability somehow explains
that a language cannot simple be learned by imitation, rather language is acquired by principles of abstraction, perhaps
its innate.
The second principle is known as recursion Natural languages typically allow constructions that involves the repetitive
occurrence of elements, this phenomenon is defined as iteration or recursion. This growing structure by enumerating the
elements in them, face the problem that there is no upper limit to the length of such sentences. However, with simple
rules system the recursive character of a native language can be described.
Examples of recursion in a language.
NP coordination: Brian called Amy and Amy called Patrick, and Patric called Stuart, and .
Adjectival Iteration: The wonderful, long, new, blue, Mexican, . Carpet.
Prepositional Prhases attachment: The ball in the box, under the table, with the lamp, in the house,. Therefore there is
no end of prepositional phrase to be attached
B. Even though the number of sentences is infinite, no all sentences that are used in human conversation find their way
into a grammatical theory. The level of abstraction is defined as competence. As native speaker we are able to make
numerous intuitive judgments about the language. We dont need to consult grammar books. Somehow we have the
notion of that some sentences are bad and some are fine. This is what we call competence. Therefore a sentence can be
grammatically correct but semantically not, or grammatically incorrect from the scratch.
1. The table look the woman
2. John put the car (We know that put requires a locations (adverbial)
3. Put John in the garage the car (in this sentence we have a problem with the word order)
C. Components constitutes the core of generative grammar and interact each other.
The first one
Phrase structure component
Its central task is description of all well-formed sentences of a language. T And to achieve this goal we need a well-defined
rule system. That combines all categories into a successfully larger units.
The second component is the Lexicon interacts with the phrase structure component and contains information about
the lexeme of a language. This includes phonological, morphologic, syntactic semantic aspects.
To summarize generative grammar not only provides a description of a structure but it seems to explains the following
phenomenon.
It explains ,The language processing, that is, how do humans understand and produce speech
Language acquisition whats goes on when in an infants mind when he or she acquires his or her mother tongue.
Language variation, why do language change.