GRAMMATICAL CONSTITUENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction

Synonyms:

constituent; grammatical constituent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grammatical constituent" is a kind of...):

syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical constituent"):

subject ((grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated)

object ((grammar) a constituent that is acted upon)

ablative absolute (a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier)

immediate constituent (a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate)

construction; expression; grammatical construction (a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit)

misconstruction (an ungrammatical constituent)

term (one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition)

Holonyms ("grammatical constituent" is a part of...):

sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)