GRAMMATICAL RELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical relation mean? 

• GRAMMATICAL RELATION (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL RELATION has 1 sense:

1. a linguistic relation established by grammar

  Familiarity information: GRAMMATICAL RELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMATICAL RELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A linguistic relation established by grammar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("grammatical relation" is a kind of...):

linguistic relation (a relation between linguistic forms or constituents)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical relation"):

agreement; concord (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; modification; qualifying (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase)

modality; mode; mood (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)