ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Subconstituency

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Subconstituency is a noun meaning A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.

Meaning

A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.

More Meanings

  1. (linguistics) The property of being a subconstituent.

Example Sentences

The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.
The result is the exclusion of access by a selecting head to information about either the phonological form or the syntactic subconstituency of its arguments.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subconstituent, constituent, subconstellation, subentity, subcause, subcoalition.

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