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Phrase structure is a widespread approach to the analysis and exploration of sentence structure.

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What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. ph...

Seeing this question reminded me of a section in Peter Matthews book 'Syntax' (1981) (it's meant to be a textbook, but it's more like a monograph really). In Chapter 4, p84-93, there's an explicit com …
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What's the difference between recursion and embedding?

Recursion in phrase structure grammar is where an expression of some type contains an expression of that same type. Under this definition, chains of relative clauses count as an instance of recursion. …
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