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Meaning of subconstituency | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
  2. The property of being a subconstituent.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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