subjacency

/S AH1 B JH EY1 S AH0 N S IY0/
noun
  1. 1

    The state of being subjacent.

  2. 2

    (linguistics) A constraint on the movement of elements which states that the target position of movement must be structurally close downwards to the source position.

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