strict implication implication strident vs mellow strident vs non-strident strident vs non-strident [Lat. stridere ‘to make a high-pitched sound’] (also strident vs mellow)

Method of grammatical analysis of sentences developed by R.E.Longacre and Z.S.Harris within the framework of tagmemics. In contrast to phrase structure grammar, which assumes a hierarchical structure for sentences, string analysis is based on the hypothesis that language is a linear ordering of individual elements. Every sentence, then, is analyzable as a kernel sentence which is surrounded by zero or more complements ( also adjunct); the complements are in turn made up of necessary elements. Each word is classifiable on the basis of its morphosyntactic characteristics, so that sentences can be represented as strings of category symbols On the basis of an openended list of axiomatic elementary strings, sentences are parsed into partial strings that can occur to the right or left of the central kernel string. In other words, acceptable sentences are

words, syntagms, sentences).