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subconstituency

noun

Etymology

From sub- + constituency.

  1. borrowed from cōnstituēns
  2. formed as constituency — “constituent + -ency”
  3. prefixed as subconstituency — “sub + constituency”

Definitions

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

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subconstituency. 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