University lessons of English language
University lessons of English language
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What is a constituent?
What is a constituent?
Definition
A constituent is one of two or more grammatical units that enter syntactically or morphologically into a
construction
at any level.
Examples (English)
The sentence
You eat bananas
contains the following constituents:
Immediate constituents
you
eat bananas
Ultimate constituents
you
eat
banana
-s
Kinds
Here are some kinds of constituents:
What is an immediate constituent?
What is an ultimate constituent?
What is a construction?
What are discontinuous constituents?
What is a morpheme?
What is a zero?
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