Questions tagged [phrase-structure]
Phrase structure is a widespread approach to the analysis and exploration of sentence structure.
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How can PSG describe the vertical dimension of sentence structure? [closed]
PSG (phrase structure grammar) describes the horizontal dimension of sentence structure with strings, sequences of sentence parts, in a way we are all familiar with. We know that nominal expressions, ...
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What's the difference between recursion and embedding?
Chains of relative clauses and strings of attributive adjectives are both examples of recursion--Correct?
Chains of relative clauses have each non-initial relative clause embedded within the previous ...
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What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure trees?
What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure (aka. constituency) trees?
From what I've read, dependency grammar trees lack phrase ...
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Is there a paradigmatic formalism for dependency grammars?
When looking on the web, wikipedia for example, at the concept of
constituent, it is associated with the concept of phrase structure,
and rather quickly with context-free languages (as the ...
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Term for the modified part of a prepositional complement
A prepositional complement is the noun phrase that follows a preposition. So, given sentences like
John saw the woman with an umbrella.
and
John saw the moon with a telescope.
The ...
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Constituency grammar or Phrase Structure Grammar?
In most of the literature I have encountered thus far, the terms "constituency grammar" and "phrase structure grammar" seem to be used interchangeably.
Is either one of the two more acceptable or ...
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English Phrase Structure Rules and adjectives
I am learning about English grammar, but as a programmer, I have natually gravitated towards learning about syntactic structure. I am learning from university lecture notes which I found through ...
