Glossary term C

Constituent

A constituent is one of two or more grammatical units that enter syntactically or morphologically into a construction at any level.

(English)

The sentence You eat bananas contains the following constituents:

Immediate constituents:

  • you
  • eat bananas

Ultimate constituents:

  • you
  • eat
  • banana
  • -s

More specific concepts within constituent.

  1. Crystal 1985, 68
  2. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 38
  3. Mish 1991, 281
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