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• Phraseology

  [frey-zee-ol-uh-jee] /ˌfreɪ ziˈɒl ə dʒi/ noun 1. manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology. 2. expressions; phrases: obscure phraseology. /ˌfreɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ/ noun (pl) -gies 1. the manner in which words or phrases are used 2. a set of phrases used by a particular group of people n. 1550s, coined erroneously in Greek as […]

• Phrases

  [freyz] /freɪz/ noun 1. Grammar. 2. Rhetoric. a word or group of spoken words that the mind focuses on momentarily as a meaningful unit and is preceded and followed by pauses. 3. a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression: a hackneyed phrase. 4. Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight […]

• Phrase-structure

  noun, Linguistics. 1. the hierarchical arrangement of the constituent words and phrases of a sentence.

• Phrase-structure grammar

  [freyz-struhk-cher] /ˈfreɪzˌstrʌk tʃər/ noun, Linguistics. 1. a grammar that consists of phrase-structure rules. noun 1. a grammar in which relations among the words and morphemes of a sentence are described, but not deeper or semantic relations PSG Compare transformational grammar

• Phrase-structure rule

  noun, Linguistics. 1. a rule that generates a sentence or other syntactic construction from words and phrases and identifies its constituent structure. noun 1. (generative grammar) a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label, such as noun phrase or sentence, and X is a sequence of such labels […]

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