grammatical constituent
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1. (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | syntagm, syntagma, |
| definition | : | a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | subject, |
| definition | : | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | object, |
| definition | : | (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | ablative absolute, |
| definition | : | a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | immediate constituent, |
| definition | : | a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | misconstruction, |
| definition | : | an ungrammatical constituent (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | term, |
| definition | : | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition (noun.communication) |
| part meronym | : | sentence, |
| definition | : | a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | grammar, |
| definition | : | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) (noun.cognition) |
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