subconstituency

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ constituency

Noun

subconstituency (plural subconstituencies)

1. A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
2. (linguistics) The property of being a subconstituent.
   • 2000, North Eastern Linguistic Society, NELS: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society:

     The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.

   • 2003, Lynn Nadel, Encyclopedia of cognitive science - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 670:

     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.

Related terms

• subconstituent