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phrase-structure rule

noun

, Linguistics.
  1. a rule that generates a sentence or other syntactic construction from words and phrases and identifies its constituent structure.


phrase-structure rule

noun

  1. generative grammar a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label, such as noun phrase or sentence, and X is a sequence of such labels and/or morphemes, expressing the fact that A can be replaced by X in generating the constituent structure of a sentence Also calledrewrite rule Compare transformational rule
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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