Noun immediate constituent has 1 sense

1. immediate constituent - a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
   --₁ is a kind of constituent, grammatical constituent
   

Immediate Constituent

Definition: In linguistics, an immediate constituent refers to a unit of a sentence that is immediately dominated by a higher constituent.

[Noun - Linguistics] The term "immediate constituent" refers to a grammatical analysis technique used to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of sentences.

[Example Sentence] The linguist examined the sentence "I saw a beautiful butterfly in the garden," identifying the immediate constituents as "I," "saw," "a beautiful butterfly," and "in the garden."

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