constituent

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.

To appeal from the representatives to the constituents.

Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive s inflection in English without saying that it's a Noun Phrase inflection.