Synonym(s):

• branching rule
• constituent structure constraint
• expansion rule
• phrase structure rule
• rewriting rule

Related Term(s):

• sequential derivation

Source(s):

TRASK 1993241
CRYSTAL 2003399
PALMATIER 1972149 (= instruction formula, rule of formation, one-many rule, string-replacement rule, immediate constituent (IC) rule, PS rule, constituent-structure rule, P-rule, constituent-membership rule)
DINEEN 1967373
RUWET 1973[trans.]90
HARTMANN & STORK 1972198
LYONS 1971210 (rewrite-rule), 216
FINCH 200081, 114
RICHARDS etal. 199232
MATTHEWS 1997321
ELL5166

• TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.
• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• DINEEN, Francis P. (1967) An Introduction to General Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
• RUWET, Nicholas. (1973 [trans.]) An Introduction to Generative Grammar. Trans. by Norval S.H. Smith. Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Co.
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 
• FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Generative / Transformational Grammar