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Syntactic as well as semantic analysis, in theory as well as in practice, starts nearly always from the decomposition of sentences into smaller groups of words such as noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, prepositional phrases, etc. Syntactically, this is motivated by the assumption that a higher level of generalization in the description of natural language structures can be achieved in terms of such groups than in terms of individual words. Semantically, it is motivated by the compositionality principle, which entails the decomposition of sentences into meaningful parts in order to systematically derive sentence meanings from individual word meanings.
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Bunt, H. (1991). Parsing with Discontinuous Phrase Structure Grammar. In: Tomita, M. (eds) Current Issues in Parsing Technology. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 126. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3986-5_4
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