NOUN
- a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
How To Use immediate constituent In A Sentence
- The discussion of other work in syntax during those years is generally restricted to occasional references to the tagmemes of Kenneth Pike and the now-classic article on immediate constituents by Rulon Wells (Wells 1947).
- One sometimes says that Tarski's definition of satisfaction is compositional, meaning that the class of assignments which satisfy a compound formula F is determined solely by (1) the syntactic rule used to construct F from its immediate constituents and (2) the classes of assignments that satisfy these immediate constituents. Tarski's Truth Definitions
- It is the immediate constituent of the intonational phrase, possessing prosodic unity.
