Question

___ essentially a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis, was first introduced by Bloomfield and systematized with theoretical formulations by Roulon Wells and Zellig Harris.

• A. Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA)
• B. Immediate Content Analysis (ICA)
• C. Immediate Analysis Constituent (IAC)
• D. Immediate Construction Analysis (ICA)

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA)

• Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) is a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis.

• It was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield and later systematized and formalized by Rulon Wells and Zellig Harris.

• ICA involves breaking down a sentence into its immediate constituents (major parts) and then recursively breaking these parts down further until the smallest units (words or morphemes) are reached.

👉 Example:

• The small boy kicked the ball.

• ICA first divides it into:

  • The small boy (noun phrase)

  • kicked the ball (verb phrase)