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Figure 2: The constituent structure of a class of simple sentences with arbitrary letters used to represent the form class of each constituent (see text). phrase structure of the sentence “The man will hit the ball” Figure 1: The constituent structure of a simple sentence (see text). phrase structure of VP, or verb phrase
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phrase structure

grammar
Also known as: constituent structure

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  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
    In linguistics: Chomsky’s grammar

    …three sections, or components: the phrase-structure component, the transformational component, and the morphophonemic component. Each of these components consisted of a set of rules operating upon a certain “input” to yield a certain “output.” The notion of phrase structure may be dealt with independently of its incorporation in the larger…

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  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
    In linguistics: Chomsky’s grammar

    …of the constituent structure, or phrase structure, of the sentence, and it is assigned by the rules that generate the sentence.

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