c-command

Meanings

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.

Verb

• To dominate in a c-command relationship.

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.{{cite-web
• |url=http://web.mit.edu/ekeshet/www/Papers/phase.pdf
• |last=Keshet
• |first=Ezra
• |title=24.952 Syntax Squib
• |publisher=MIT
• |date=2004-05-20