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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, a <b>discontinuity</b> occurs when a given word or <a href="page.php?w=phrase">phrase</a> is separated from another word or phrase that it modifies in such a manner that a direct connection cannot be established between the two without incurring crossing lines in the <a href="page.php?w=Parse_tree">tree structure</a>. The terminology that is employed to denote discontinuities varies depending on the theory of syntax at hand. The terms discontinuous constituent, displacement, long distance dependency,</p><p>
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