- a rule that generates a sentence or other syntactic construction from words and phrases and identifies its constituent structure.
- 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
More Definitions
- ACTUALS (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
- FLYING SQUAD (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
- FALL ON (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
- KEMPIS (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
- THIEF IN THE NIGHT, LIKE A (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples
- LIPODYSTROPHY (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples