Are there published generative grammars for natural languages?

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I have some ideas to do with natural language processing. I will need some grammars of the

S -> NP VP

variety in order to play with them.

If I try to write these rules myself it will be a tedious and error-prone business. Has anyone ever typed up and released comprehensive rule sets for English and other natural languages? Ideally written in BNF, Prolog or similar syntax.

My project only relates to context-free grammars, I'm not interested in statistical methods or machine learning -- I need to systematically produce Engligh-like and Foobarian-like sentences.

If you know where to find such materiel, I'd very much appreciate it.

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