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=== Example ===
 
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In "eat <FOOD>", "<FOOD>" is a variable constituent, whose values range over the members of the category <FOOD>.  
In "eat food", "food" is a variable constituent, whose values range over the members of the category FOOD.  
 
 
 
  
 
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* [http://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
  
* [http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/subjects/default.aspx&CountryID=1&ImprintID=2&BookID=117093 Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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Latest revision as of 06:36, 8 October 2017

A variable constituent is a constituent of a mutable lexeme or a construction.

Example

In "eat <FOOD>", "<FOOD>" is a variable constituent, whose values range over the members of the category <FOOD>.

Sources

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