structural change
Linguistics
noun
(In early theories of transformational generative grammar) a change in syntactic structure resulting from the application of a transformational rule.
Origin
1950s.
- spread better
- spread betting
- spreadeagle
- spread eagle
- spreader
- spread like wildfire
- spread oneself too thin
- spread one's wings
- spread (or stretch or try) one's wings
- spreadsheet
- spread the word
- Sprechgesang
- Sprechstimme
- spree
- spree killer
- spree killing
- spreite
- sprezzatura
- sprig
- spriggy
- sprightliness
- sprightly
- spring
- spring a leak
- spring a trap