English Explanatory Dictionary

c-command

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.
verb
  1. To dominate in a c-command relationship.

Word forms

c-command c-commands c-commanding c-commanded

Etymology

A shortened form of "constituent command." The term may also have been chosen so as to eliminate confusion in speech with the similar notion kommand.

Related words

m-command kommand
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