Adjunct

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Adjunct is a constituent in an adjoined position.

Example

In [X Y [X ...]] Y is Chomsky -adjoined to X.

Comment

Usually the term 'adjunct' refers to base-generated adjuncts only.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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