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Constituent (linguistics) In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent structure of sentences is identified using tests for constituents. [1] These tests apply to a portion of a sentence, and the results provide evidence about the ...
3 juil. 2019 · In English grammar, a constituent is a linguistic part of a larger sentence, phrase, or clause. For instance, all the words and phrases that make up a sentence are said to be constituents of that sentence. A constituent can be a morpheme, word, phrase, or clause.
- Richard Nordquist
The more generic term for a group of words that act together to form a unit is a constituent. So what’s our evidence that constituents exist in our minds? Within a given sentence, how can we tell if a given string of words acts as a unit?
- Catherine Anderson
- 2018
17 févr. 2020 · In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. A phrase is a sequence of one or more words (in some theories two or more) built around a head lexical item and working as a unit within a sentence. There doesn't seem to be much of difference between them.
Understand the definition of constituent. Explore constituency tests including: standing alone, replacement and displacement. Start looking at representing these structures in tree format.
- Andrew Carnie
- 2011
In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as one unit within a hierarchical structure. Phrases (noun phrases, verbal phrases, etc.) are usually constituents of a clause, but clauses may also be combined into a bigger structure.
In the theory of constituent structure proposed by Chomsky ( 1986 ), heads of phrases are obligatorily present, complements (sisters to X categories) are present according to predicate valence, and specifier positions (sisters to X′ categories) are optional.
