Then he discusses phrase structure grammar, a model based on immediate constituent analysis.

Phrase structure rules and the tree structures that are associated with them are a form of immediate constituent analysis.

Relative motivation refers to the compositionality of the linguistic system, along the lines of an immediate constituent analysis.

In linguistics, immediate constituent analysis or IC analysis is a method of sentence analysis that was first mentioned by Leonard Bloomfield and developed further by Rulon Wells.

As well as procedures, structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis, a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents, which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent.