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Calliphaeia Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Immediate and ultimate constituents

What is the difference between immediate and ultimate constituents in a word?


How they can be identified during the analysis of word?
Can you give me an example?


  

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From the Linguistic Glossary: An immediate constituent is any one of the largest grammatical units that constitute a construction. In the complex noun phrase the dog that killed the cat, each of the following items are immediate constituents : the dog that killed the cat An ultimate constituent is one of the grammatically irreducible units that constitutes a construction. In the construction the dog that killed the cat, the following are ultimate constituents : the dog that kill -ed the cat

— Mister Micawber

  • From the Linguistic Glossary: An immediate constituent is any one of the largest grammatical units that constitute a construction.
  • In the complex noun phrase the dog that killed the cat, each of the following items are immediate constituents : the dog that killed the cat An ultimate constituent is one of the grammatically irreducible units that constitutes a construction.
  • In the construction the dog that killed the cat, the following are ultimate constituents : the dog that kill -ed the cat
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From the Linguistic Glossary:


  • An immediate constituent is any one of the largest grammatical units that constitute a construction. Immediate constituents are often further reducible.In the complex noun phrase the dog that killed the cat, each of the following items are immediate constituents:
    • the
    • dog
    • that kille
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    Thanks, you helped me a lot.

    One more thing, I know how to use ic analysis when I'm analysing a noun phrase or similar construction, actually I'm stuck with the word 'industrialization' which is given in exercises that I practiced. I suppose that ultimate constituents would be:

    industry

    -al

    -ize

    -ation

    but I'm not sure about immedia
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    Sorry, I lost track of this thread. I don't think words have immediate constiuents; they are immediate constituents. Here, the 'immediate constituent' is 'industrialization'.

    When discussing single words, we talk about morphemes, free and bound [url=http://www.sil
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    I'm studing english at Faculty of foreign languages and this is an exercise from mock test that professor gave us:

    Analyze the morphological structure of the word:

    industrialization

    1. Grammatical meaning (part of speech, word-form)

    2. Lexical meaning - translation

    3. Simple / composite

    4. Cuts

    5. Diagram

    6. Constitutes
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    ungentlemanly introduced by L.Bloomfield
    Breaking a word into its Immediate Constituents we observe in each cut the structural order of the constituents.
    A diagram presenting the four cuts described looks as follows:
    1. un- / gentlemanly
    2. gentleman / - ly
    3. gentle / - man
    4. gent / - le
    1,2,3 - Immediate Constituents
    4 - Ultimate Constituents
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