Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 5 compound words that contain grammars. The most common are listed below. Open grammars in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- formal grammarsplural of formal grammar: A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion …
- context-free grammarsplural of context-free grammar: A formal grammar in which every production rule is such that the left-hand side is exactly one non-terminal symbol and the right-hand side is zero or more terminal symbols and/or nonterminal symbols.
- transformational generative grammarsplural of transformational generative grammar: transformational grammar
- case grammarsplural of case grammar: Any of a class of grammars that focus on the link between the valence of a verb and the grammatical context it requires.
- dependency grammarsplural of dependency grammar: Any of a class of grammars based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the constituency relation), in which words are interconnected by directed links, and the (finite) verb is regarded as the centre of …
- natural grammarsplural of natural grammar: A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar).
- universal grammarsplural of universal grammar: A hypothetical innate abstract system in the human brain that underlies the grammar of all human languages.
- compositional grammarsplural of compositional grammar: consciously employed musical grammar.
- transformational grammarsplural of transformational grammar: A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations …
- generative grammarsplural of generative grammar: A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
- context-sensitive grammarsplural of context-sensitive grammar: A formal grammar in which the left-hand sides and right-hand sides of any production rules may be surrounded by a context of terminal and nonterminal symbols.
- categorial grammarsplural of categorial grammar: A type of formal grammar of natural language syntax, according to which syntactic constituents combine as functions and arguments.
- dependence grammarsplural of dependence grammar: Any of a class of grammars based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the constituency relation), in which words are interconnected by directed links, and the (finite) verb is regarded as the centre of …
Compound words 5
- cryptogrammarsplural of cryptogrammar: The hidden or non-obvious aspects of the grammar of a language.
- lexicogrammarsplural of lexicogrammar: The continuity between grammar and lexis.
- metagrammarsplural of metagrammar: A formal grammar that describes a set of possible grammars.
- protogrammarsplural of protogrammar: A rudimentary grammar.
- subgrammarsplural of subgrammar: A grammar that makes up part of a larger grammar; a subdivision of a grammar.