長ちょう距きょ離り依い存ぞん

noun

long-distance dependency

Technical term in linguistics referring to a syntactic relation where a constituent is displaced far from its canonical position, such as in wh-movement or topicalization.

• 英えい語ごのwh疑ぎ問もん文ぶんでは、長ちょう距きょ離り依い存ぞんがよく見みられる。

  In English wh-questions, long-distance dependencies are often observed.

• この論ろん文ぶんは、日本にほん語ごにおける長ちょう距きょ離り依い存ぞんの処しょ理りについて論ろんじている。

  This paper discusses the processing of long-distance dependencies in Japanese.