Constituent
Definition:
A constituent is one of two or more grammatical units that enter syntactically or morphologically into a construction at any level.
Examples:
(English)
The sentence You eat bananas contains the following constituents:
Immediate constituents:
- you
- eat bananas
Ultimate constituents:
- you
- eat
- banana
- -s
Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.