subconstituency
nounEtymology From sub- + constituency.
1
A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The property of being a subconstituent.
- The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.2000, North Eastern Linguistic Society, NELS: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society:
- 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.2003, Lynn Nadel, Encyclopedia of cognitive science - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 670:
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