Generative

Generative may refer to:

• Generative actor, a person who instigates social change
• Generative art, art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner
• Generative music, music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system

Math 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, systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns which can be extremely varied and unpredictable

Language

• Generative grammar, a set of rules predicting which combinations of words will form grammatical sentences
• Generative Lexicon, a theory of semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language
• Generative linguistics, a school of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar
• Generative principle, 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, an approach developed from transformational generative grammar that assumes that deep structures are the sole input to semantic interpretation