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subconstituency en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + constituency.

Meanings

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