Discuss
with examples the concept of IC analysis. / What is meant by IC analysis?
Discuss its limitations with examples.
Immediate constituent analysis, also called IC Analysis, in linguistics, a system of
grammatical analysis that divides sentences into successive layers, or constituents, until, in the final layer, each constituent consists of only a word or meaningful part of a word.
(A constituent is any word or construction that enters into some larger
construction.)
In the sentence “The
old man ran away,” the first division into immediate constituents would be
between “the old man” and “ran away.” The immediate constituents of “the old
man” are “the” and “old man.” At the next level “old man” is divided into “old”
and “man.” The term was introduced by the United States linguist Leonard Bloomfield in 1933,
though the underlying principle is common both to the traditional practice of
parsing and to many modern systems of grammatical analysis.
LIMITATIONS
OF IC ANALYSIS
A. Presumptions
about the grammatical status of the elements:
Although IC analysis
is supposed to precede any attempt to identify and classify the ICs as
subjects, objects, noun phrase, it is based on the tacit assumptions about the
grammatical status of the elements.
Example: "want
to go" can be cut in two ways, i.e. want/ to go and want to/go.
If we compare it with
'want food' then clearly the first analysis would be 'want to/go'. But the
answer given was in favor of 'want/to go' because the possibility of 'to go' is
easy where obviously 'to go' is a constituent. Here such identification is
clearly grammatical because we are tacitly accepting an analysis which allows
us to consider 'to go' as some kind of nominal element and favoring the
comparison with 'want food', so that 'to go' is an expansion of 'food' because
it is of the same grammatical type.................................................................................................................................
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