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c-command

noun

Etymology

A shortened form of "constituent command." The term may also have been chosen so as to eliminate confusion in speech with the similar notion kommand.

Definitions

  1. The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning…

    The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.

  2. To dominate in a c-command relationship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for c-command. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA