A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. A relation which may hold between nodes in a tree. If a continuous downward path of whatever length can be traced from a node A to a node B, then A dominates B, and A bears the relation of dominance to B. By convention, a node dominates itself.
The representation of dominance relations is one of the fundamental purposes of a tree diagram. Cf. immediate dominance and proper dominance, and see also domain, ancestor and descendant.
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