c-command

== English == === 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. === Noun === c-command (uncountable) (syntax) 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. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === c-command (third-person singular simple present c-commands, present participle c-commanding, simple past and past participle c-commanded) (syntax, transitive) To dominate in a c-command relationship. ==== Translations ==== === See also === m-command kommand === References === 1976 Reinhart, Tanya M. The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora. (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). (Available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20111122155216/http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16400). William O'Grady; Michael Dobrovolsky; Mark Aronoff (1997), Contemporary Linguistics, third edition, Bedford/St. Martin's Liliane Haegeman (1994), Introduction to Government and Binding Theory, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, page 137 Carnie, Andrew (2002), Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 1 edition, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, page 77 2002 Harris, C. L. and Bates, E. A. 'Clausal backgrounding and pronominal reference: A functionalist approach to c-command'. Language and Cognitive Processes 17(3):237-269. === Further reading === c-command on Wikipedia.Wikipedia c-command and pronouns Node relations, University of Pennsylvania Some Basic Concepts in Government and Binding Theory