constituent structure

基本解释

LFG defines binding at the level of functional structure as well as argument structure and constituent structure.
词汇功能语法则从功能结构、主目结构和组构成分结构的层面对约束做了定义。
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.
句子结构的层次性可以用成分结构树形图加以充分说明。这种图看起来像一棵倒置的树，因此叫做树形图。
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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.
引起句法层面的歧义主要是三个因素：多个成分结构，多个成分功能和省略。英语中，句法成分不仅按线性排列，而且具有层次性。