grammatical relation

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grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammar

linguistic relation - a relation between linguistic forms or constituents

concord, agreement - the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

transitiveness, transitivity - the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb

intransitiveness, intransitivity - the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb

coreference - the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent

conjunction - the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction

complementation - the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

coordination - the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form

subordination - the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head

limiting, qualifying, modification - the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

modality, mood, mode - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

anaphoric relation - the relation between an anaphor and its antecedent

voice - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

inflection, inflexion - a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

aspect - the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb

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Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relation, ed.

A Canonical Approach to the Argument/Adjunct Distinction

If and when the genitive marker is used the grammatical relation is expressed as xu~/a kanur `the light of God' which is a phrase and not a compound.

FUNCTIONS OF INFIXES IN URDU ENDOCENTRIC COMPOUNDS

Margetts and Austin use the term 'secondary strategy' in a different sense: they limit this notion to the grammatical relation the Theme of a three-participant bears in comparison to the Theme of a two-participant event.

On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke *

Extracting grammatical relations from the feature structure produced by the parser is simple: there is a grammatical relation between the head word of each sub-structure and the head word of the outer structure containing the sub-structure in question.

User interactions with multimedia repositories using natural language interfaces--OntoNL: an Architectural Framework and its implementation

The confusion is brought about by the fact that Zwingli basically uses these verbs indifferently to refer both to the grammatical relation holding between subject and predicate, and to the real relation holding (in type (3) propositions) between subject and property.

Alloiosis in the Christology of Zwingli

All these hierarchies suggest that the assignment of grammatical relations 'subject' and 'object' becomes more difficult as we move from left to right, until a cut-off point is reached after which the assignment of a particular grammatical relation to a semantic function becomes impossible.

On the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of some subject--like NPs in Croatian/Sintakticki, semanticki i pragmaticki aspekti nekih kvazisubjektnih imenskih skupina u hrvatskom jeziku

(9) Alignment of person and grammatical relation (from Aissen 1999a: 682)

Aligning restricted objects **

in terms of a relational hierarchy of the Keenan & Comrie or Perlmutter & Postal sort, whereby arguments are ranked with respect to various phenomena in terms of the grammatical relation they bear, with direct object (or relation 2) being intermediate to subject (R1) and indirect object (R3).

"What became of Waring?" Questioning the predicator in English. (Linguistics)

a) the grammatical relation of object would be assigned to the theme argument and in (1.

Dative alternation in Crotian (1)/Dativna alternacija u hrvatskome

In Toqabaqita instrument inversion, the grammatical relation (but not the sentence position) of the patient/theme NP is taken over by the instrument NP.