phrase-structure grammar

[freyz-struhk-cher]

phrase-struc·ture gram·mar

[freyz-struhk-cher]
noun Linguistics.
a grammar that consists of phrase-structure rules.

Origin:
1965–70
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Phrase-structure grammar is always a great word to know.
So is idiolect. Does it mean:
a person's individual speech pattern
a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb
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phrase-structure grammar
 
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Compare transformational grammar PSG a grammar in which relations among the words and morphemes of a sentence are described, but not deeper or semantic relations

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