constituent structure

基本解釋

LFG defines binding at the level of functional structure as well as argument structure and constituent structure.
詞匯功能語法則從功能結(jié)構(gòu)、主目結(jié)構(gòu)和組構(gòu)成分結(jié)構(gòu)的層面對約束做了定義。
The hierarchical order can be best illustrated with a tree diagram of constituent structure, so called because such a diagram looks like an inverted tree.
句子結(jié)構(gòu)的層次性可以用成分結(jié)構(gòu)樹形圖加以充分說明。這種圖看起來像一棵倒置的樹，因此叫做樹形圖。
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Sometimes the same linear order of constituents corresponds to more than one constituent structure, which is the potential one of the causes of syntactic ambiguity.
引起句法層面的歧義主要是三個因素：多個成分結(jié)構(gòu)，多個成分功能和省略。英語中，句法成分不僅按線性排列，而且具有層次性。