Definition of Immediate Constituent and Tree Diagram
Definition of Immediate Constituent and Tree Diagram
Definition of Immediate Constituent and Tree Diagram
The IC analysis structure form likes box, but tree diagram structure like tree branches.
Immediate Constituent Analysis is one of the best method of sentence analysis. During the
past fifty years modern linguistics has developed an impressive array of procedures, and
number of theories of linguistic or syntactic analysis. What had been in the past of interest
mainly to the pedagogue and linguistic historian has become a major concern of philosophers,
psychologists, sociologists, logicians, communication theorists and even biologists.
It would not be possible, even in an article devoted entirely to the subject, to give a
complete picture of this development. Hence only a brief discussion on various systems or
methods of procedures of syntactic analysis known as ’syntactic models’ is given in the
following pages.
Immediate Constituent Analysis is one of the strong methods of analyzing a sentence
linguistically. It aims at finding out the ultimate constituents of a sentence and their relationship
with one another. The constituents are nothing but actually the morphemes or which when
structured into successive utterances (sentences). It is the development and study of these
constituents which has come to be known as Immediate Constituent Analysis or IC analysis.
The theory of (IC) was first given by Bloomfield in his famous linguistics book and described
the way in which it was feasible to take a sentence (Poor John ran away) and can be split it up
into two immediate constituents (Poor John and ran away),So in this format we can see the
sentence not only as a sequence of elements. (Poor+ John+ ran+ away) but also, about as
being made Up of split up layers’ of constituents, each cutting points, we can understand this in
the diagram given below.
Sentence