What we have done in this simple sentence is to discover the pertinent environment of each word or group of words. These sets of pertinent environments correlate with what we shall call immediate constituents, i.e. the constituent elements immediately entering into any meaningful combination. - Nida (1949), a pag.87 Combinations of more than two immediate constituents are rare, and so far as is known involve only nuclear elements. - Nida (1949), a pag.90
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