Prof. Fakhar Alam

Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

Prof. Fakhar Alam

Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

Prof. Fakhar Alam

Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

Prof. Fakhar Alam

Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

    Paper 6        Linguistics


    Phrase Structure Rules



    These rules refer to rules to generate a large number of sentences with only a small number of rules. Below are the Phrase Structure Rules:

(1). S => NP + VP (=>: can be written as)
(2) Noun Phrase




Note: The curly bracket indicates choices.

(3) Auxiliary => tense (modal)(have+en)(be+ing)

(4) Tense



(5) Verb
VP => V.int + 0 NP   (ket: Zero)
          V.Tr.+NP+(prep+NP)

 V.int. verb intransitive, V.tr verb transitive
Transitive become V have + NP
Transitive V seem + Adv

(6) preposition
PP=> Prep NP

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