Immediate constituent analysis

Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) is a linguistic methodology used to break down sentences into their constituent parts. The approach focuses on identifying the immediate constituents (ICs), which are the immediate parts or components of a larger linguistic unit, like a sentence. ### Key Concepts of Immediate Constituent Analysis: 1. **Constituents**: These are the parts of a sentence that function as single units. They can be words or phrases that combine to create a larger structure.