Phrase Structure Grammar

A Phrase Structure Grammar is a Natural Language Syntactic Theory/Natural Language Grammar contains recursive Phrase Structure Rules.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Context Free Phrase-Structure Grammar to being a Context Sensitive Phrase-Structure Grammar.
  • It can be a Generative Phrase Structure Grammar.
  • It can be a Lexicalized Phrase Structure Grammar.
• Example(s):
  • a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Dependency Grammar.
• See: Constituent Structure, Dependency Grammar, Rewrite Rule, Post Canonical System, Chomsky Hierarchy, Grammar Theory.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phrase_structure_grammar Retrieved:2014-9-17.
  • The term phrase structure grammar was originally introduced by Noam Chomsky as the term for grammars as defined by phrase structure rules, i.e. rewrite rules of the type studied previously by Emil Post and Axel Thue (see Post canonical systems). Some authors, however, reserve the term for more restricted grammars in the Chomsky hierarchy: context-sensitive grammars, or context-free grammars. In a broader sense, phrase structure grammars are also known as constituency grammars. The defining trait of phrase structure grammars is thus their adherence to the constituency relation, as opposed to the dependency relation of dependency grammars.

2003

• (Sag et al., 2003) ⇒ I. A. Sag, T. Wasow, and E. M. Bender. (2003). “Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd edition." CSLI Publications.

1957

• (Chomsky, 1957) ⇒ Noam Chomsky. (1957). “Syntactic Structures." Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN:978-3-11-017279-9

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