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A-Z 141Referencesconstraints, transformational grammarbox diagramIn immediate constituent analysis, a boxBox diagramdiagram is a form of representation used for illustrating the hierarchical structures ofsentences. If the symbols of the grammatical categories are connected by branc the hes,result is a tree diagram turned upside down. The different levels of the box diagramcorrespond to the individual steps of division in immediate constituents. Box diagramsare equivalent to the corresponding tree diagram. phrase structure rules and labeledbracketing, cf. the diagram under tree diagram.brace constructionBasic principle of German and Dutch word order that refers to a positional separation ofthe different parts of predication and/or of other elements of the sentence. The formationof the brace construction varies according to sentence and brace type. (a) The verbalbrace construction is formed, among others, by (i) the separable parts of amorphologically complex verb: Sie lernte gestern den Sachverhalt endlich genauerkennen ‘Yesterday she finally got to know the matter better’; (ii) finite auxiliary ormodal verb and infinite main verb or predicate part: Sieden Sachverhaltkennenlernen ‘She will/must get to know the matter’; (iii) finite predicate part andcertain verb complements or other information that in basic word order ( word order)generally comes after the sentence negation (this itself is regarded as a brace-closingelement in some of the pertinent literature): Sie bekam den Fall nicht unter Kontrolle;Sie fühlte sich nicht überarbeitet ‘She did not come to grips with the case’; ‘She did not