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	Phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
		A phrase is a syntactic structure which has syntactic properties derived from its head.
		For example prepositional phrases express a figure-ground relation in which the prepositional complement is the ground, the preposition itself specifies the relation, and the precedent element is the figure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phrase (586 words)

	Phrase article - Phrase Prepositional phrase preposition Noun phrase noun Verb phrase - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Informally, a phrase is a group of words in a sentence that functions somewhat like a single word.
		Prepositional phrase with a preposition as head (e.g.
		Verb phrase with a verb as head (e.g.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Phrase (410 words)

	Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A phrase is a syntactic structure which has syntactic propertiesderived from its head.
		For example the house at the end of the street is a noun phrase.Its head is house, and its syntactic properties come from that fact.
		"Complex", which is phrase-level, is often confused with " compound ", which is word -level.
	www.therfcc.org /phrase-4490.html (366 words)

	Phrase Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In music the term phrase is used to refer to a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale.
		In common practice phrases are often four and most often eight bars long.
		A rough analogy between musical phrases and the linguistic phrase (above) is often made, comparing the lowest phrase level to clauses and the highest to a complete sentence.
	kvariety.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/p/ph/phrase.html (488 words)

	Brainstorms: Complex systems and the kitchen sink
		Complexity in this sense is quite different from whatever "complex" might mean in everyday language, or what it means in some other technical uses of the word.
		Complexity is, I would argue, a particularly valuable concept in the scientific analysis of biological systems because biological systems can be model, analyzed, explained, and simulated in terms of teleological causation or teleological systems.
		Finally, the concept of complexity is particularly useful or applicable in the analysis of purposeful or teleological systems where complexity is measured or defined as ((the number of possible forms) divided by (the number of adaptive form(forms compatible with survival))).
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000119.html (1874 words)

	Grammar glossary
		Sometimes (but not always!) the meaning of the noun phrase with a classifying genitive is not predictable from the meaning of the genitive phrase + the meaning of the head noun.
		complex sentence (helsetning med leddsetning): a complex sentence consists of a main clause with at least one associated subordinate clause.
		complex transitive verb (treverdig verb med objekt og objektspredikativ eller adverbial): a three-place verb which combines with an object predicative or an obligatory adverbial in addition to the subject and a direct object.
	folk.uio.no /hhasselg/terms.html (4620 words)

	SEMANTICAL COMPLEXITY AND ONTOLOGICAL SIMPLICITY
		For a complex spoken expression can have compositional meaning only in virtue of the compositional meaning of the concept it is subordinated to, since no spoken phrase can have any meaning whatsoever other than the meaning it has from the corresponding concept.
		By this criterion, for example, the word 'fireman' is not syntactically complex, for even if it has separately meaningful parts, those parts do not determine the meaning of the whole by the meanings they separately have (for a fireman is not something that is both a fire and a man).
		By contrast, the phrase 'a man whose job is to extinguish dangerous fires' is syntactically complex in this sense, as is obvious.
	www.fordham.edu /gsas/phil/klima/APA98.htm (1631 words)

	Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And when I tell a patient “You have a cervical subluxation…” his or her face screws up as he or she asks, “I've got a sub-what?” but really, “joint complex dysfunction” is even less melodious, harder to comprehend, and an artificial word contraption without history or emotion.
		Notwithstanding Dr Seaman's excellent description of a joint complex dysfunction, the logic with which he introduces his argument for change is flawed.
		Joint complex dysfunction, at least as contrived and not more descriptive, represents only the conventional wisdom on the subject, which changes weekly.
	www.chiro.org /LINKS/DISCONTINUED/Joint_complex_dysfunction.shtml (1363 words)

	Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design:Response to Critics : Behe, Michael
		To decide whether, or by what evidence, it is falsifiable, one first has to be sure what is meant by “intelligent design.” By that phrase someone might mean that the laws of nature themselves are designed to produce life and the complex systems that undergird it.
		In such a view even if we observe new complex systems being produced by selection pressure in the wild or in the laboratory, design would not be falsified because it is considered to be built into natural laws.
		Furthermore, I argued that irreducible complexity is a hallmark of intelligent design, took several chapters to explicate how we apprehend design, showed why some biochemical systems meet the criteria, and addressed objections to the design argument.
	www.arn.org /docs/behe/mb_philosophicalobjectionsresponse.htm (6042 words)

	Persian Noun Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A complex NP is the noun phrase structure that is formed from several simple NPs.
		Pronouns and proper names mark the boundary of the Noun Phrase (i.e., no other NP element can appear to the right of pronouns and proper names), hence they are often included as the last element in the Persian NP.
		The complex noun phrase is the equivalent of the genitive or possessive constructions in English, such as "Mao's red book", "her mother's hat" or "the syntax of noun phrases".
	crl.nmsu.edu /Research/Projects/shiraz/ling/np.html (3926 words)

	Information Ethics - Examples of Plagiarism
		Somewhere, many of us got the idea that simplicity in writing is a vice- that the long word is better than the short word, that the complex phrase is superior to the simple one.
		There is an idea out there that simplicity in writing is a vice-- that the long word is better than the short one, that the complex phrase is superior to the simple one.
		The short word is better than the long word; the simple phrase is better than the more complex one.
	lib.runet.edu /Tutorial/XI/examp.asp (289 words)

	NP Project: Final report
		Given the functional (communicative-cognitive) approach taken to the analysis of the empirical data, it was felt that in the interest of coherence and manageability, the research questions originally included in the separate sections on textual and functional matters were better included in the chapters dealing with the research issues addressed in the part on structure.
		In addition, there are those linguists who believe that the only fruitful way of explaining the complexity of word order variation is to assume that word order is determined by a number of interacting and possibly competing principles and preferences.
		In dealing with complex phenomena like binominal constructions, word order and heaviness, it is not possible to give a satisfactory explanation in terms of one underlying principle only (whether syntactic, semantic, pragmatic or cognitive).
	www.ucl.ac.uk /english-usage/noun-phrase/report.htm (2319 words)

	SONAR Professional - Search Engine Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phrase selection - Words and phrases can be easily selected from the screen using the mouse, or typed from the keyboard.
		Complex phrases are created by combining two or more Boolean expressions.
		A complex phrase can be easily generated to find all documents which have the word "computer" and either "United" and "States" within 4 words of each other, or "import" and "agreement" within 20 words of each other.
	www.websonar.com /features.html (1358 words)

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		Whereas the nominal man contributes a class concept to the proposition that I met a man, the complex phrase a man contributes a denoting concept.
		Third, denoting concepts fail to conform to a principle of compositionality, according to which the meaning of a complex expression is a function of its structure and the meanings of its constituents (see Compositionality, Philosophical aspects).
		To ensure that ‘the F is G’ expresses a proposition come what may, Russell interprets it as a complex existential claim, rejecting the intuitive classification of ‘the F’ as a singular term.
	www.sunynassau.edu /dptpages/Phi/papers/ostertag.rev.doc (2663 words)

	Digital Government
		Word: gasoline grades Head Noun Phrase: classification of gasoline Note: Gasoline sales are reported by grade in accordance with their classification at the time of sale.
		Finished motor gasoline may be further mixed with other motor gasoline blending components or oxygenates, resulting in increased volumes of finished motor gasoline and/or changes in the formulation of finished motor gasoline (e.g., conventional motor gasoline mixed with MTBE to produce oxygenated motor gasoline).
		Word: motor gasoline blending components Head Noun Phrase: napthas Used for: blending or compounding into finished motor gasoline Include: reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending Exclude: oxygenates butane pentanes plus Note: Oxygenates are reported as individual components and are included in the total for other hydrocarbons, hydrogens, and oxygenates.
	www.cs.columbia.edu /digigov/deftagging.html (1761 words)

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		We have argued that complex numbers in mathematics achieved mathematical conceptual status only after the successful construction of an elaborate blend, even though the formal correspondences required between space and "imaginary" numbers had been known for centuries.
		Just like the complex blends--the boat race, King John, the desktop, and complex numbers--these two-word formal expressions result from conceptual integration: features of inputs are blended into a larger structure.
		The formal level does not express this conceptual complexity or structure: it names only one element from each space, and these named elements are not conceptual counterparts.
	philosophy.uoregon.edu /metaphor/turner.htm (7972 words)

	Determiners
		A determiner may occur as a noun phrase by itself, or it may be the head of a complex phrase containing one or more nouns, together with modifiers (e.g.
		By 'referential noun phrase', I mean (roughly) a noun phrase denoting a particular entity or group of entities which the speaker has in mind.
		Noun phrases in Tokana are marked for case (where the case which a noun phrase takes indicates something about the role that noun phrase plays in the clause).
	www.linguistics.ucla.edu /people/grads/pearson/tokdet.html (1316 words)

	CHAPTER 6
		By a "complex" characteristic he means one which is composite but which is not a mere aggregate of its components.
		Whenever we say that something is complex we imply that it is, in one respect, a unit, and, in another respect, a multiplicity.
		Animality is a highly complex determinable characteristic, in the sense in which we have explained the phrase "complex characteristic" in 2.2.
	www.ditext.com /broad/mc/mc6.html (9097 words)

	Monkeys Deaf to Complex Communication, Study Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the study, described in the journal Science last week, shows that monkeys don't understand more complex "phrase structure grammars," in which words in a sentence can be separated but still depend on each other.
		The research suggests that the ability to perceive phrase structure is one of the main differences between animal communication and human language.
		"Phrase structure is an important component of language," said Tecumseh Fitch, a lecturer at the school of psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, who led the study.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/01/0122_040122_monkeylanguage.html (812 words)

	Organism - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two eukaryotic organelles, namely mitochondria and chloroplasts, are generally considered to be derived from endosymbiotic bacteria.
		The phrase complex organism describes any organism with more than one cell.
		Many organisms are incapable of independent movement, and do not respond directly to their environment.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Living_beings (625 words)

	The Argument from Design
		In class, I used the phrase "complex harmony" to describe a range of different examples.
		This phrase was meant to capture the two points that are common to the examples cited by proponents of the Design Argument ("complexity" and "harmony").
		This premise states that the "complex harmony" that we find in the universe is best explained by the presence of a designer.
	www.unc.edu /~theis/uncg/design.html (1466 words)

	Phrases and clauses: A ten minute tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gerund phrases begin with a gerund (an -ing word which looks exactly like a present participle, but which is used as a noun.) A gerund phrase can be used in any way a noun can:
		It may, however, become part of a larger sentence if it is connected to other clauses and phrases by a semicolon or by a coordinating conjunction.
		Please direct technical questions or comments to her at writing-program@uchicago.edu; questions about the Writing Program's courses may be directed to Tracy Weiner or Kathy Cochran at the same address.
	writing-program.uchicago.edu /resources/complex-sentences.htm (1328 words)

	THE NOUN PHRASE
		Noun phrases in Euskara have a very fixed word order, in contrast to the sentences, where phrases can be arranged in many different ways.
		A second type of Noun phrase that displays no final determiner is constituted by those containing indefinite quantifiers, which have been discussed in the previous section.
		The postpositional phrase is headed by the locative postposition, and the determiner looses its final k.
	www.ehu.es /grammar/gram2.htm (6585 words)

	Java Programming: Section 11.5
		A parser is a program that determines the grammatical structure of a phrase in the language.
		This is the first step to determining the meaning of the phrase -- which for a programming language means translating it into machine language.
		Essentially, while parsing a phrase, it must be possible to tell what syntactic category is coming up next just by looking at the next item in the input.
	math.hws.edu /javanotes/c11/s5.html (3026 words)

	Behe responds to Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design
		An irreducibly complex system can be built gradually by adding parts that, while initially just advantageous, become—because of later changes—essential.
		But as evolution built on this adaptation (modifying limbs for walking, for instance), we grew thoroughly terrestrial and lungs, consequently, are no longer luxuries—they are essential.
		Shanks, Niall and Joplin, Karl H. Redundant complexity: A critical analysis of intelligent design in biochemistry.
	www.trueorigin.org /behe06.asp (6002 words)

	Dow Jones Interactive - Advanced Searching Tips
		w/# for words or phrases within a specified number of words of each other in the order they are entered.
		Phrases are searched just as you entered them, since adjacency between the terms is assumed.
		Use the connector adj between the complex and simple parts of the phrase.
	personal.anderson.ucla.edu /rita.costello/DJIadvanced.htm (1027 words)

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