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dependency grammars

dependency grammars is the plural of dependency grammar.

Meaning of dependency grammar

Noun

dependency grammar (countable and uncountable, plural dependency grammars)

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

Questions about dependency grammars

What is dependency grammars the plural of?
Dependency grammars is the plural of dependency grammar.

Words near dependency grammars in the dictionary

  1. dependencies
  2. dependency
  3. dependency culture
  4. dependency cultures
  5. dependency grammar
  6. dependency grammars
  7. dependency hell
  8. dependency injection
  9. dependency injections
  10. dependency inversion principle
  11. dependency ratio

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