phrase structuren.

1888 Mod. Lang. Notes 3 118/1 It was Goethe who taught Carlyle the supreme value of words, the insignificance of phrase-structure.

1959 S. R. Weiner in H. T. Moore D. H. Lawrence Miscellany 225 The special force of the passage—achieved through an almost hypnotic series of repetitions of words and phrase structure.

1960 J. B. Carroll in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 337/2 In the latter part of the babbling period..there are the first evidences of..phrase-structures on the part of the child.

1983 Executive Speaker (Nexis) May 4 Among these [effective speaking] devices:..repetition of a phrase structure (‘As a nation, we... as a people, we...’).

1955 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Ling. Theory (microfilm, Mass. Inst. Technol.) 17 If we construct linguistic theory in such a way that the grammar can present a phrase structure for every sentence directly..then this counter-intuitive analysis..will follow.

1957 Language 33 386 Let us first note some of these inadequacies of a phrase-structure grammar.

1976 Word 27 257 Phrase-structure rules generate the deep-structure b-sequence from which the well-formed a-sequence is derived by transformation rules.

1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct viii. 235 Head-first or head-last ordering..enforces a consistent branching direction, right or left, in the language's phrase structure trees, avoiding difficult-to-understand onion constructions.

2000 M. S. Mahoney in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers i. 22 Phrase-structure grammars and their automata would not suffice for the grammatical structures of natural language.

1962 Language 38 56 Each utterance in the sample is..described phrase-structurally, and described transformationally.

1994 J. Kornfilt in B. Lust et al. Heads, Projections, & Learnability ix. 182 They lend themselves to a plausible view of early Turkish as a nonconfigurational, phrase-structurally flat language.