Grammatical relation

Grammatical relation

In linguistics, grammatical functions or (grammatical relations) refer to syntactic relationships between parts of speech such as "subject", "object", "adjunct", "complement".

These are distinct from the semantic notions of agent and patient, as demonstrated by the fact that the passive voice in English modifies the mapping between agent/patient and subject/object.

ee also

* Grammatical case
* Syntax
* Grammatical category
* functional grammar
* Relational grammar
* Arc pair grammar


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