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subconstituency

subconstituency noun: a constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.

Noun

subconstituency (plural subconstituencies)

  1. A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
  2. The property of being a subconstituent.
    • The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.2000, North Eastern Linguistic Society, NELS: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society
    • 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.2003, Lynn Nadel, Encyclopedia of cognitive science - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 670

Forms of subconstituency

pluralsubconstituencies

Origin of subconstituency

From sub- + constituency.

Questions about subconstituency

What does subconstituency mean?
Subconstituency means a constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
What part of speech is subconstituency?
Subconstituency is a noun.
What is the plural of subconstituency?
The plural of subconstituency is subconstituencies.

Words near subconstituency in the dictionary

  1. subconstable
  2. subconstables
  3. subconstellation
  4. subconstellations
  5. subconstituencies
  6. subconstituency
  7. subconstituent
  8. subconstituents
  9. subconstraint
  10. subconstraints
  11. subconstruct

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