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In linguistics, grammatical relations (also called grammatical functions, grammatical roles, or syntactic functions) are functional relationships between...

are part of the language's grammatical structure. Grammatical relation Grammeme Syntax Joan Bybee "Irrealis" as a Grammatical Category. Anthropological...

In historical linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a process of language change by which words representing...

language considers the set of possible grammatical relations in a language or in general and how they behave in relation to one another in the morphosyntactic...

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...

purported paranormal effects Operation, a word which represents a grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name Operation...

gapless passives. In possessive passives, the grammatical subject stands in a canonical possessive relation with the direct object and in gapless passives...

This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is...

understood as a category that expresses (grammaticalizes) time reference; namely one which, using grammatical means, places a state or action in time....

mood. In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language typology and syntactic description: Grammatical categories and the lexicon (Vol. 3, pp. 202-258). Cambridge: Cambridge...

on which specific grammatical theory is being used to analyze the sentence. The topic of a sentence is distinct from the grammatical subject. The topic...

Lexical aspect differs from grammatical aspect in that it is an inherent semantic property of a predicate, while grammatical aspect is a syntactic or morphological...

earliest grammatical commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. Ibn Barun in the 12th century, compares the Hebrew language with Arabic in the Islamic grammatical tradition...

prominent thematic relation that they are associated with. Different theoretical approaches often closely tie different grammatical relations of subject...

abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity...

entire lifespan. Stage-level predicates can occur in a wide range of grammatical constructions and are probably the most versatile kind of predicate....

In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the thematic relation of the cause or initiator to an event. The agent is a semantic concept distinct from the subject...

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect...

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181  That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...