Subconstituent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Subconstituent is a noun meaning (linguistics) A part or component of a syntactic, morphological, or phonetic constituent.
Meaning
(linguistics) A part or component of a syntactic, morphological, or phonetic constituent.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) One component of an algebra or graph that is made up of the union of several subalgebras or subgraphs.
- (physics) A component of an elementary particle.
Example Sentences
The term prequark has appeared in the literature as a name for subconstituents in composite models [4].
Apart from hadrons, which are made of subconstituent quarks, electron and positron are “fundamental” objects.
The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.
Subconstituent models of quarks, leptons and the weak gauge bosons [4] sometimes employ the idea of "Chiral Confinement [5] .
Word Forms
- subconstituents
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subconstituency, constituent, subentity, componence, subcompounding, conjunct.
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