phrase marker

phrase marker

noun Linguistics.
(in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
Also, phrase-mark·er.


Origin:
1960–65
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Phrase marker is always a great word to know.
So is informant. Does it mean:
a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In 'The man who called is waiting,' 'The man is waiting' is a matrix sentence
a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language
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phrase marker
 
n
linguistics a representation, esp one in the form of a tree diagram, of the constituent structure of a sentence

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