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Subjacency

Definition:

Subjacency refers to a linguistic principle that governs the permissible syntactic structures in a language, particularly the adjacency and hierarchy of constituents within a sentence.

Examples:

The subjacency violation resulted in an ungrammatical sentence.

The concept of subjacency is crucial in understanding the underlying structure of a sentence.

It is important to subjacency-prune the sentence tree to ensure syntactic well-formedness.

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