Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
A term used in structural sentence analysis for every linguistic unit, which is part of a larger linguistic unit. Several constituents together form a construction: for example, in the sentence, Money doesn’t grow on trees, each word is a constituent, as is the prepositional phrase on trees.
Constituents can be joined together with other constituents to form larger units. If two constituents, A and B, are joined to form a hierarchically higher constituent C, then A and B are said to be immediate constituents of C. (
phrase structure rule, rewrite rule)
References
immediate constituent analysis
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