Constituent Structure

Introduction

 Primitive operations on constituent structure are divided into three classes:

  1. Features:

    Predicates that access and instantiate constituent feature values.

  2. Internal structure:

    Predicates that provide access to the internal structure of simple and complex constituents.

  3. Constructors:

    Predicates for building basic constituents and complex constituents out of simpler constituents.

In some cases, depending on the mode of usage, an operation may belong to more than one class.