What does p-bar mean?

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p-bar

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English

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P-bars (plural)

I-bar N-bar V-bar

I-bar N-bar V-bar

What does p-bar mean?: A type of entity in X-bar theory, denoting the preposition in a constructed sentence.

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