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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Labeled bracketing''' is a way of representing the [[structure]] of an [[expression]] by writing square [[bracket]]s ('[' and ']') to the left and right hand side of its component parts, i.e. words or [[constituent]]s. The brackets carry subscripts, so-called [[label]]s, which state the [[category]] of the unit in question.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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the structure of the sentence ''the boy may eat apples'' is written as in (i):<br />
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(i) [<sub>IP</sub>[<sub>NP</sub>[<sub>Det</sub> the][<sub>N</sub> boy]][<sub>I'</sub>[<sub>I</sub> may][<sub>VP</sub>[<sub>V</sub> eat][<sub>NP</sub>[<sub>N</sub> apples]]]]]<br />
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The bracket notation is equivalent to the representation by means of a [[tree structure]]. The labeled brackets correspond to the nodes in the tree. Thus, a labeled bracketing like (ii) is equivalent to the [[tree]] in (iii).<br />
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(ii) [<sub>NP</sub> [<sub>Det</sub> the] [<sub>N</sub> boy]]<br />
(iii) NP<br />
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Det N<br />
/ \<br />
the boy<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Labeled+bracketing&lemmacode=577 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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