Generative may refer to: * Generative actor, a person who instigates social change * Generative art, art that has been created using an autonomous system that is frequently, but not necessarily, implemented using a computer * Generative music, music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system Mathematics and science * Generative anthropology, a field of study based on the theory that history of human culture is a genetic or "generative" development stemming from the development of language * Generative model, a model for randomly generating observable data in probability and statistics * Generative programming, a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program to allow human programmers write code at a higher abstraction level * Generative sciences, an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science that explores the natural world and its complex behaviours as a generative process *

Generative systems Generative systems are technologies with the overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by large, varied, and uncoordinated audiences. When generative systems provide a common platform, changes may occur at varying layers (physical, netwo ...

, systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns which can be extremely varied and unpredictable Language * Generative grammar, an approach to theoretical linguistics based on sets of rules that generate grammatically correct sentences * Generative lexicon, a theory of semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language *

Generative metrics Generative metrics is the collective term for three distinct theories of verse structure (focusing on the English iambic pentameter) advanced between 1966 and 1977. Inspired largely by the example of Noam Chomsky's ''Syntactic Structures'' (1957) a ...

, theories of verse structure based on generative linguistic ideas *

Generative principle In foreign language teaching, the generative principle reflects the human capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases and sentences from a finite grammatical or linguistic competence. This capacity was captured in Wilhelm von Humboldt's fam ...

, the idea in foreign language teaching that humans have the capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases from a finite grammatical competence *

Generative semantics Generative semantics was a research program in theoretical linguistics which held that syntactic structures are computed on the basis of meanings rather than the other way around. Generative semantics developed out of transformational generati ...

, an approach developed from transformational generative grammar that assumes that deep structures are the sole input to semantic interpretation

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