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    Immediate constituent (IC) analysis breaks down linguistic utterances into their smallest meaningful parts. It involves identifying the immediate constituents of words, phrases, clauses, and full sentences in a hierarchical structure. For a word like "unfriendliness", the ICs are "unfriendly" and "ness"; for a sentence like "the dog followed the boy", the ICs are the noun phrase "the dog" and the verb phrase "followed the boy". IC analysis thus reveals the internal structure of linguistic units and their relationship to each other.

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    Immediate constituent (IC) analysis breaks down linguistic utterances into their smallest meaningful parts. It involves identifying the immediate constituents of words, phrases, clauses, and full sentences in a hierarchical structure. For a word like "unfriendliness", the ICs are "unfriendly" and "ness"; for a sentence like "the dog followed the boy", the ICs are the noun phrase "the dog" and the verb phrase "followed the boy". IC analysis thus reveals the internal structure of linguistic units and their relationship to each other.

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    Immediate constituent (IC) analysis breaks down linguistic utterances into their smallest meaningful parts. It involves identifying the immediate constituents of words, phrases, clauses, and full sentences in a hierarchical structure. For a word like "unfriendliness", the ICs are "unfriendly" and "ness"; for a sentence like "the dog followed the boy", the ICs are the noun phrase "the dog" and the verb phrase "followed the boy". IC analysis thus reveals the internal structure of linguistic units and their relationship to each other.

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    Immediate constituent (IC) analysis breaks down linguistic utterances into their smallest meaningful parts. It involves identifying the immediate constituents of words, phrases, clauses, and full sentences in a hierarchical structure. For a word like "unfriendliness", the ICs are "unfriendly" and "ness"; for a sentence like "the dog followed the boy", the ICs are the noun phrase "the dog" and the verb phrase "followed the boy". IC analysis thus reveals the internal structure of linguistic units and their relationship to each other.

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    1. Give an account of the technique of Immediate constituent analysis (I.C).

    Answer : 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 the morphemes or group of
    morphemes which, is the discovery of these constituent analysis or I.C. analysis. This term
    was first introduced by Bloomfield in 1939.

    The technique of Immediate constituent of analysis or I.C. analysis is used to analyse


    utterances to their components or constituents. In other words, this technique shows how any
    given construction can be broken down to smallest meaningful units. This smallest
    meaningful unit can be a morpheme at the morphological level or a word at the syntactical
    level. Many of the words in English or other languages have and internal hierarchical
    structure (this can be represented by means of a free diagram) for example –the word
    unfriendliness can be broken down to several constituents which follows a hierarchical
    structure. This is shown with the help of the following of diagram.

    unfriendliness

    unfriendly ness

    un friendly

    friend ly

    In the above example the immediate constituent of unfriendliness are unfriendly and
    ness of I.C. of unfriendly are un and friendly. The IC of friendly are friend and ly. No
    further analysis is possible beyond this level. Thus the ultimate constituents of unfriendliness
    are “un”, “friend”, “ly” and “ness”.
    As in the case of words there is a hierarchy of structure in sentences. I.C. analysis
    helps us to discover lower level constituent from higher level constituents. E.g.- the following
    sentence has eight constituents-

    “her father brought a shot gun to the wedding. However these eight constituents
    follow a particular structure in building the whole sentence. Thus the sentence is formed with
    the noun phrase (N.P) “her gather” and the verb phrase (V.P)” brought a shot gun to the
    weddings”. Thus these two can be called the I.C. of the sentence as a whole. A sentence like “
    the dog followed the boy” can be analysed into I.C. with the help of the following free
    diagram.

    The dog followed the boy.

    The dog followed the boy

    The Dog followed the boy

    The boy

    In the above example “the” and “boy” functioned as the Immediate constituents of the
    noun phrase (N.P) “the boy”. This NP itself is the immediate constituents of the verb phrase-
    “followed the boy”. The verb phrase (vp) is an immediate constituents of the sentence as a
    whole. In this structure the ultimate constituents are related to the sentence through the
    hierarchy of immediate constituents. This kind of analysis is called I.C. analysis.

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