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phrase-structure grammar

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phrase-structure grammar

Theory of language structure that proposes that a given language has several different potential sentence patterns, consisting of various sorts of phrases, which can be expanded in various ways.

For example, the sentence ‘The girl opened the door’ contains a noun phrase, the girl, and a verb phrase, opened the door; the verb phrase can be broken down further into a verb, opened, and a noun phrase, the door; and so on.
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In the August LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, two papers show for the first time that there are human languages that cannot possibly be described by a context-free phrase-structure grammar.
Exceptions to the rule; at least two human languages contain ... by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
 
 
 
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