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:
     

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