dependency grammar

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dependency grammar (countable and uncountable, plural dependency grammars)

  1. (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 clause structure.
    Synonym: DG
    Coordinate term: constituency grammar
    • 2016, Dipanjan Sarkar, Text Analytics with Python: A Practical Real-World Approach to Gaining Actionable Insights from your Data, Apress, →ISBN, page 15:
      Grammar can be subdivided into two main classes—dependency grammars and constituency grammars—based on their representations for linguistic syntax and structure.

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