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references for Grammar Glossary entry: “constituent”

• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:

grammatical units

2.3, 38

constituents

2.4, 39

chain and choice relationships

2.5,2.6; 41

the grammatical hierarchy

2.7, 42

embedding

2.8; 43

embedding of relative clauses in noun phrases

17.1, 1238