"chronological structure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the way information or events are arranged in a chronological order, from earliest to latest or vice versa. Example: The author organized her novel in a chronological structure, starting with the protagonist's childhood and progressing through her adult years. Another example: In his presentation, the historian followed a chronological structure, discussing events in the order they occurred in history.
There's nothing wrong with a chronological structure.
In fact, a chronological structure would be misleading.
Perhaps that's why Holmes has opted for a conventional chronological structure for her biography.
Full of vivid anecdotes though it is, Life After Dark's chronological structure presents problems.
Vanished Years maintains a discreetly chronological structure, but it's designed to prioritise digression and recollection.
But the documentary is basically traditional, with a straightforward, chronological structure.
There are structural alternatives, but for the story of a journey they can be unpromising and confusing when compared with a structure that is chronologically controlled". Et cetera. Et cetera, in an annual mantra about what I thought to be axiomatic: journeys demand chronological structures.
The proposed framework is designed with the aim of evolving stories that conventionally are authored and experienced as linear chronological structures, in interactive experiences enabling actions in a nonlinear and unpredictable fashion.
But the picture's magic touch is the anti-chronological structure which enables its three stories to intersect in unusual ways – so the final story predates the first one, and a character who dies in the middle story reappears at the end, striding off toward a demise we have witnessed, but about which he can have no possible inkling.
Subsequently critics and audiences have warmed to its sharp insights on emotional cruelty and self-deception contained within an innovative reverse-chronological structure: the play begins with the end of the affair between Emma and Jerry and ends with their initial seduction.
We have: Chronological age structure equals thanatological age structure in a stationary population (Brouard 1989; Vaupel 2009): where c(a) is the stable chronological age structure expressed as a proportion, and g(a) is the proportion of the population with a remaining years of life.
