grammatical relation

Noun
  1. A linguistic relation established by grammar (synset 113818991)
    is a type of: linguistic relation - a relation between linguistic forms or constituents
    subtypes:
    • 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

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