grammatical relation (redirected from Grammatical function)

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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