grammatical relation

Other forms: grammatical relations

Definitions of grammatical relation

1. noun

   a linguistic relation established by grammar
   types:

   agreement, concord

   in grammar, the correspondence between two words

   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

   number agreement

   agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)

   person agreement

   agreement in person between pronouns and verbs

   case agreement

   agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction

   gender agreement

   agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction

   reflexiveness, reflexivity

   the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent

   coordinating conjunction

   the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status

   subordinating conjunction

   the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another

   copulative conjunction

   the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the addition of their meanings

   disjunctive conjunction

   the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meanings

   adversative conjunction

   the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings

   restrictiveness

   a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')

   apposition

   a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

   common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood

   a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

   subjunctive, subjunctive mood

   a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible

   optative, optative mood

   a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs

   imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood

   a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

   interrogative, interrogative mood

   some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood

   active, active voice

   the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

   passive, passive voice

   the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

   conjugation

   the inflection of verbs

   declension

   the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

   paradigm

   systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

   pluralisation, pluralization

   the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to

   perfective, perfective aspect

   the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action

   durative, durative aspect

   the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration

   inchoative, inchoative aspect

   aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb

   iterative, iterative aspect

   the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action

   type of:

   linguistic relation

   a relation between linguistic forms or constituents