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IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does immediate constituent mean?
• IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT (noun)
The noun IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT has 1 sense:
1. a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
Familiarity information: IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("immediate constituent" is a kind of...):
constituent; grammatical constituent ((grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction)
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