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c-command

The English word “c-command” has 2 meanings listed here.

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.

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.

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