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
- (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
- subconstituencies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subconstituent, constituent, subconstellation, subentity, subcause, subcoalition.
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