c-command
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.
Noun
- 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.
- Given the key assumption of Trace Theory that a moved constituent leaves behind a coindexed trace, we might formulate the relevant principle that transformations cannot downgrade constituents in terms of an equivalent...
Origin
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.
Verb
- To dominate in a c-command relationship.