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-	{{Template}}	+	{{Template}}In [[linguistics]], a '''transformational grammar''', or '''transformational-generative grammar''' ('''TGG'''), is a [[generative grammar]], especially of a [[natural language]], that has been developed in a [[Noam Chomsky|Chomskyan]] tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the Chomskyan tradition that gives rise to specific transformational grammars. Much current research in transformational grammar is inspired by Chomsky's [[Minimalist Program]].
-	From the 1950s, American linguistic tradition began to diverge from the [[Ferdinand de Saussure|de Saussurian]] [[structuralism]] taught in European academia, notably with [[Noam Chomsky]]'s "[[Psychological nativism|nativist]]" [[transformational grammar]] and successor theories, which during the 1970s "[[Linguistics Wars]]" and the hey-day of [[postmodernism]] gave rise to a bewildering variety of competing [[grammar framework]]s.	+
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In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational-generative grammar (TGG), is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Chomskyan tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the Chomskyan tradition that gives rise to specific transformational grammars. Much current research in transformational grammar is inspired by Chomsky's Minimalist Program.