subgrammar

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ grammar.

Noun

subgrammar (plural subgrammars)

  1. A grammar that makes up part of a larger grammar; a subdivision of a grammar.
    • 2013, M.T. Rosetta, Compositional Translation, page 263:
      The 'original' subgrammars can be seen as a concatenation' or composition of some of these parts with the requirement that the export category of a preceding subgrammar in the concatenation must be the head category of a subsequent subgrammar.