subconstituency
Noun
A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
The property of being a subconstituent.
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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.
Word forms
subconstituencies